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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I assume they're having an emergency. Or they're a raging asshole. In either case it's not a great idea to play games with them. If you ever fuck around and find out I hope you'll come tell us about it so I can gloat.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I sometimes wonder who died and made them all highway patrol. I just want to get home safe, can people just not fucking ego trip behind the wheel of the 2 ton deathmobile?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Funny thing about irrational people? Even if you act as safe as you can, they'll find some way to blame you for being their problem.

Tolerance of intolerance is not tolerance. It's enablement. Sure, don't be a petty dick and make the situation worse... but don't necessarily act the doormat either.

[–] brbposting 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've got a similar story, but with a much more positive ending.

Was at a LARP event, camping in the woods, when a girl started having an asthma attack. She'd forgotten her inhaler, no one else had one on hand, and she was visibly turning blue as she suffocated. We called 911, but the nearest hospital was in a city several miles away and the 911 operator couldn't locate our site to send the ambulance.

We agreed to meet the ambulance on the highway halfway, loaded up in my truck, and I booked it. Pushed my little 4-cylinder Frontier up to 115mph. Fastest I've ever driven. I had my hazards going and was flashing my brights like an asshole at every car I overtook. Thank fuck they all yielded to me.

We met the ambulance on the side of the road, transferred her over, and they were able to get her breathing again. She survived.

[–] brbposting 2 points 7 months ago

OMG!

You saved a life ❤️ great collab

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, and never proven to be true.

[–] brbposting 2 points 7 months ago

Sounded a little suspicious on a second read!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So you feel that it would be better for me to either increase to an unsafe speed or force my way back into the slower traffic that I was trying to pass in the first place?