During my runs, when people roll through stop signs and red lights so they don't have to wait the extra 10 seconds for me to run across the street in front of their car.
Just tonight. The jackwad made eye contact and pulled up in the crosswalk and was about to gun it, but the car coming from his right was moving to fast, so he stopped. He gives me this "sorry" look and gives a wave. I yelled, "Thank you. Not!" Oh, I was so mad, I just wanted to yell something really mean at him.
I had someone pull a dumb stunt like that in a grocery store parking lot right in front of the front door (where it's hatched STOP FOR PEDESTRIANS). I was already IN that crossing zone when the asshat gunned the engine from ~50 feet away, then slammed on the brakes, coming to a stop less than a foot from where I'd
been... In the second before impact, I'd jumped UP and TOWARDS him, landing with both boots on the hood of his sports car, denting it in against the motor (which let out a REALLY horrific squeal). The guy dived out and started giving me a ration of shit, but a security guard was standing right there and saw everything. I told Mr Charm School that if he didn't shut the fuck up, I was calling the police and filing charges for attempted murder, and the guard backed me up.
I'd been hit by a car (like in MintJulie's story) a few years earlier, so I don't take prisoners. The guy never stopped at the STOP sign or crosswalk, and caught me with the mirror.
I had another incident (even earlier) when I was on a 10-speed bike on the through street. The guy blew the STOP sign on the T-street and I went over his hood. He also gave me a pile of shit for denting his car, and I told him either give me $100 cash to fix my bike or I was calling a cop. He paid and shut up. The bike needed a new front fork and wheel.
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My pet peeve is people driving psychopathically fast in residential areas. Here in Dallas all the residential zones are 30MPH, yet I frequently hear people going over 60 down the street near me, in the evening when visibility is poor and kids are out. One car last night sounded like it was over 100. In a different residential area of Dallas a few months back, 10AM Saturday morning the traffic was ALL jacked up, and when I got up to it I saw one of our sterling citizens standing next to his $UV, and it was upside down in someone's front yard, with two other severely dented cars scattered around it. Again, 30MPH posted speed. You can't GET a big SUV upside down at that speed.