Well, you’re not the police. Every time you decide to stay in the passing lane when faster traffic is obviously coming up on you, you’re basically deciding to try and enforce laws. This is never wise unless you have the lights, gun, and badge.

It’s actually better not to engage the lunatic at all. No gestures, no horn,no flashing of lights. Just let it go, or if you’re in a quick enough car, get up and go.

People forget that they are not the police; morality or literal. Then they meet the more effective asshole.

This so much. I’ve noticed that a heeathy number of SUV/truck owners really seem to hate getting passed by a little car, especially if ii’s cutesy or looks like it should be slow. This basically never happens when I’ve driving something big, seems to happpen a lot while in the Abarth and I noticed it driving a Turbo…

Whaa’s a shame is that the owner of that 300ZX was likely going tit-for-tat with some maniac with his helpless girlfriend in the car. Maybe losing the ZX will make him consider what else could have been llost.

I appreciate that we could come to an agreement on this issue. <3

Good idea. I’ll charge for my life lessons and impart wisdom among you, the stupids. Kinda like Trump University, but for people who can’t parent effectively.

So much wrong up in this. Your entire post is one of the kid controlling every aspect of the situation. You make children sound like uncontrollable devils. That they have the power to make their own dining decisions. That they can behave so badly thaat you can’t even deal with them. That their existence makes an SUV…

Alternatively, tell your kid to stay out of the fucking gorilla pit.

No, wrong. Your kids are YOUR kids. Nobody is obligated to parent the minature versions of you that you decided to create, except you.

Some people seriously don’t have enough to do. This is what they come up with in their idle hours.

Good call on the glasses. It is a shit look; Evans looks nerdy enough as it is, and those glasses make him appear to be trying for the look of Chuckie from RugRats.

Or, you know, just use uConnect. It’s available for free and Chrysler seems to have figured out how to make it a) work and b) not suck.

The confrontation seems so tempting, but escalating a situation generally doesn’t move it toward the optimal resolution. Personally, I’d not be interested in physically confronting a person premeditating rape unless I was packing for this very reason. A cornered animal is a dangerous thing.

This story is a good reminder of this fact. Most rapists aren’t the creep coming in through the window at night; they’re a friend or relative. So gross but at least there was a positive resolution to this story.

That’s very charitable of you to say. I thought he looked a bit like the result of radiation-damaged DNA.

Well that’s the spirit! I don’t really think I’ll have too much trouble, as I’m only about 6' even and I’m a wiry framed girl. Big guys seem to have the most trouble wtih these things.

It gives me a serious case of the sads, too. Being tall sucks for getting into tiny, low cars (which are the best cars). That said, an Elise SC is still pretty much the dream machine and it will happen even if vertibrae have to be removed to make it possible.

starred for “rockinghorse poop.”

Does anyone really find burnouts to be impressive? I mean, maybe if they’re done with a manual transmission, but they’re really kind of banal when you have a million torques through a slushbox.