Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 09:28:34 -0800
Reply-To: Zoltan <zol@FOXINTERNET.NET>
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From: Zoltan <zol@FOXINTERNET.NET>
Subject: Re: road rage...my first experience tonite!!!
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Chris,
I have seen many of these. It was the male being protective of his female and showing her how much he cares of her safety.
Not consciously of course.
The female likes to see her male strong in her defense. This is instinct. Ancient, inherited traits. The female's complains, words, incites the man within, eggs him on...
Most fights in a bar, dance hall, parties happen in an instant. Bar owner will tell you that these fights are basically started with the female's "defense". There is an urge to do it, to prove oneself. "Looking for a fight" term is more understandable this way. And there is the other one, when men are proving themselves to each other in a group of two and more, which on there own would never attempt. Not mentioning the fact that most people are living under someone else's control and have none for themselves, creating a piled up frustration in them, and the only control they have in their daily life commandeering their car around town and country as they please... Not to mention an unsuccessful life loaded with bills to pay. And watch out for physically unattractive persons. Their love life could be poor too if their communication skills are low.
Road rage, throwing things, slamming doors, shouting, screaming, blowing up in a cluster of insulting words, is just one way of showing that frustration. Provided that the perceived balance of power permits it. He has to win. He is in a trance of which he can come out in an instant when the balance of power is suddenly and substantially changed. Hollywood gives us the material, the examples, the criminal education and if that's not enough he will become a graduate after spending time in prison.
Have you ever used your mind to think about the fact that while there is a certain percentage of the population that is in prison or jail, while only a small percentage of criminals are apprehended, how many are than between us that are supposed to be in there and are working on their next assignment, even making a living out of it daily. And I don't even mention now the white collar thieves who bleed you white. All those man who were misled as a child until their mid twenties that their strength, good looks, their gift in that particular sport, their charm and wits will make a great living without the effort of the hardest thing in the world;doing a university or acquiring a professional education, find themselves on the outer edge of life knowing that they are as smart or smarter than the other guy he knows who is living great. He is frustrated too.
Overly dominant bosses, wives will make a man mad. Every day, every minute, every place.
Or have you thought about; how many man are divorced and living a life without their kids but pay a lot for them and being
in a fix they can't get out of, financially, mentally. If seventy percent is divorced there are a lot of unhappy man and complaining woman living a miserable life.
And their children are the people of our world who had no love as we knew it, who are looking for something they don't know what it is. They will divorce in an instant. Especially the girls who will not tolerate a man who tells them what to do. (they only doing it by instinct, the way it always was)
The battle of the two genders have created a very unhappy society and it is getting worse very fast. Hollywood will speed up the process. "You aint see nothing yet".
So a financially more civilized Vanagon owner will be looked upon as a failure by the SUV guy who pays $400 a month for his make believe space ship to use it for satisfying his boss to show up at work daily and his need to feel and look good for the outside world. Low class have always tried to make even on the road in a good car. But if you would follow him you would be surprised to see the area he lives. And if you happen to get in his home you would see a war zone littered with junk, barely enough space to walk, dirt, dog poop and hair, cat vomit and poop under the table, no books or bookshelf, but one TV and a couch. Shoes and shirt and pant around, piles of anything all over. In one room there may even be a bike getting fixed the last three years.
And a fat lady will come out of some hole screaming, holding a new baby. And it does not have to be a trailer park. Than the frustrated man jumps up gets in his space ship and flies away to a make believe world where he is the boss and will give you shit it you get in the way with your funny looking Vanagon that he has seen somewhere already.
These are the people we grow now here. They are our product. They are no accidents as divorces and Hollywood is not an accident...
I hope you will not be so surprised next time you sit behind the wheel of your beloved Vanagon that will not be a spaceship ever and will always let you be in command and will serve you faithfully, changing no character, longer than any new wife after new wife.
That's all for today.
The Vanagon does not make a good getaway car.
Zoltan
----- Original Message -----
From: JordanVw@AOL.COM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 1:19 AM
Subject: road rage...my first experience tonite.. LOCK YOUR DOORS!!!
tonight i was at the local mall, went there w/ a female friend for a dinner/
movie.. we were heading out from dinner, over to the movie theatres.
parking lot is filled with big piles of plowed up snow, so visibility around
corners etc, is limited.
Got to an intersection in the mall parking lot, looked both ways, then
proceeded. view to my left was blocked by a big pile of snow, so i didnt see
this guy (i am using the term "guy" to be nice at this point) in a SUV flying
aroung the corner.. ok, no biggie, i lead foot it, get out of his way. he
slows, (not locking brakes) and hits the horn as he passes me. ok, so it
was a minor inconvienience, and i should have been alittle more careful, my
visibility was limited, but no harm done, shrug it off. . Anyway so i go
onto the movie theatre, a few minutes more, and park. well, much to my
astonishment - this "guy" (punk ass kid describes it better) looked to be
in his early 20's? who was driving the SUV pulls right up to me (aparently he
did a U turn and followed me!!??!) - fast - hits the brakes - and points his
SUV with Hi-beams on dead on at my drivers door.........he jumps out... he
runs over yelling "F U", "F", this, "F" that, get the "F" outta the car, you
mother F'er ...he then PULLS OPEN MY DRIVERS DOOR.... at this point my female
friend is crying.. this guy then reaches in, grabs my jacket, and tries to
PULL ME OUT OF THE CAR, i was pretty shaken up, i was cornered in by his SUV
and had nowhere to go... he continues to try to get me to "fight him" and
holds the door, keeping me from shutting it.. i am almost 31. i have no
desire to get into a fist fight with anyone. my friend scarted to scream and
cry loudly, and then this guy takes his open hand, smacks the drivers window
(it a wonder he didnt break it) and the door slams closed..i quickly lock the
doors, didnt know what to expect.. he then belts out a few more
expletitives, then spits on my window (yea, really!) and then gets back in
his SUV and leaves.. funny thing was his girlfriend (what kind of person is
she??) is sitting in the front SUV pass seat with her head turned away the
whole time..
didnt get a plate number. i was pretty shaken up.
what kind of person would do that? seriously F*cked up.. seriously.
loose cannon.. prolly beats his gf. dunno.
lock your doors folks, there are alot of crazy people out there.
still shaking...
chris
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