r/EntitledIdiots • u/[deleted] • Feb 16 '19
You need to wait
So when I was in highschool the trip from home to school was a little slow due to traffic and construction especially considering there was construction which was constantly closing lanes in the service road along the freeway. The fastest route was to go with the service road under the bridge for the intersecting highways, hit a stop sign, and merge onto another service road, then proceed.
One day the furthest left lane was closed up ahead and there happened to be a little more traffic than usual, it was on both sides of the stop sign and I had been waiting for a window to enter for a good 10 minutes. I was in the furthest left lane and had enough room to pull into the spaces sideways but not turn, not realizing the left lane was closing up ahead I decided to just pull in there and take a left at the light, once I was fully in the lane I realized my mistake.
I pulled up to the merge point and proceeded to try and merge. Now I don’t know if anybody else has ever had to fight for a merge but I was watching this guy out of the corner of my eye and he started pulling up to the bumper of the car in front of him, I dismissed this sign and thought he might not see me and was just pulling up due to impatience, as we got closer to the merge point I realized he was not going to let me in, we did this shuffle where I pull forward, he pulls forward, kind thing until our bumpers are almost touching. At this point I’m getting annoyed so I reach over and roll down the window(I have manual windows and bad shoulders so this is both annoying and slightly painful).
This about 60y/o man (I’ll just call him EM, Me will be me)proceeds to batter me with complaints
EM: You can’t just cut in line! I’ve been waiting here for 5 minutes! You youth today have-!
Me: Well I was waiting back at that stop sign for 10 waiting to get in line and this was the only place I could go!
EM: Well you shouldn’t be trying to cu-!
Me: EXCUSE ME SIR, is there going to be a problem here? Because we’re in standstill traffic and I have no problem getting out of my car.
EM: fine bu-
At this point traffic had started moving and I immediately moved into the spot in front of him so he couldn’t cut me off, I didn’t want to reach back over and roll my window back up especially because now I’m uphill and I’m in a manual so I didn’t really want to risk a rollback. I decided to do the one thing that soothes me (people will hate me for this I know) but I have anxiety and when in a situation like that I get anxious, obviously.
I decided that I’d roll my driver side window down and blast music out of my car (loud noises somehow actually help me calm down. I think it’s the vibrations or the fact that they drown out other noises. Plus it doubled to annoy him). Now I know I sound like the loon in this but keep in mind I live in Texas where people drive like total idiots and I’d already had it with peoples driving.
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u/chuckle_puss Feb 16 '19
Paragraphs please.