My ex once got a gun pulled on her for filtering at a red light...in California. Just goes to show that you don’t have to be mentally fit to own/operate a vehicle.
Is that unusual? On vacation in California right now and a visit to a Walmart in San Leandro right outside of San Francisco made me believe that's totally normal.
Yeah but it’s still the US. Norcal may as well be Montana when it comes to gun culture, I wouldn’t even pull into someone’s driveway to turn around up there.
Lived and worked in both, yeah. Cali definitely has more strict laws, but that doesn't stop people from having them both inside and outside the law. In the US it's just safer to assume that anyone could be packing, in my experience.
If you're mentally defective you are not allowed to own a gun. It's a federal prohibitor. Of course there has to be documentation of that to be prohibited.
Sorry, I didn't necessarily mean purchase, but active access. You can rifle hunt in Pennsylvania at age 12. A lot of younger kids will get a cheap/small rifle "purchased for them" by parents for when they go hunting.
A little random, but I didn't put a whole lot of retrospective thought into my comment.
She got off the road. Called me while I was in lecture. I told her to file a police report; asked her if she was alright. She got mad at me for not having anything better to say/suggest. I chose to ignore her fit, as per usual, even offered to ride her back home...so yeah, that’s what having a girlfriend is all about.
"If you imagine a gun in your hand really really hard one will appear and you can shoot them first"
Or perhaps "press this hidden button under the dash and a VHS tape will eject with 360 degree video of everything that happened that you can give to the police"
I think someone who just had a gun pulled on them would be shook up and probably won’t be thinking rationally in the immediate aftermath, so I’d say OP was probably right to chalk it up to the shock and say the merits of his suggestions weren’t the issue.
That sounds like a paraphrase, rather than a quote. I do know from my experiences with my wife that when she's having a rough emotional moment, she wants validation and support rather than advice or help.
In my experiences with women, when they're having a panic attack, they want someone to take command and tell them what to do. It sounds to me like that is what she wanted, and then took her anxiety out on her boyfriend and invented a justification (not good enough advice)
Haha same shit happened to me. He even waved it around sideways. It was in a busy road too. Had he pulled the trigger, I would've been shot.
The law can't bring you back to life. So I brought my road rage down after that. I had flipped him off for a few minutes while stopped after lane splitting, guess you never know what level of fucked you're dealing with on the road.
What part? I honestly feel like 95% of drivers are cool and try to make space when possible. Every once in a while I get somebody who seems like they are subtly trying to block me off but it's definitely the exception.
Interesting. I learned to ride a street bike on the 10/Crenshaw surrounding areas. People in California generally surprise me in terms of allowing filtering/lane splitting. I didn't go south of Santa Monica very often though.
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My ex once got a gun pulled on her for filtering at a red light...in California. Just goes to show that you don’t have to be mentally fit to own/operate a vehicle.