Yeah, that's the ticket!!!  Drive about 2 mph faster than he could run.

DM&FS
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mick Kalber 
  To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM 
  Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 11:29 PM
  Subject: Re: road rage...my first experience tonite.. LOCK YOUR DOORS!!!

  Problem was... no time to do any of those things.  I couldn't believe he could even get his hand in such a small opening, let alone hit me that hard and that fast.  I couldn't move fast enough to close the window on his hand... but if I could have I think I'd have just started driving!

  Mick Kalber
  89 Syncro Westy "Daddeo"
  Tropical Visions Video, Inc.
  62 Halaulani Place
  Hilo, Hawaii 96720
  808-935-5557
  808-935-0066 (fax)
  hotlava@interpac.net
  www.volcanoscapes.com
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Max/Joyce Wellhouse 
    To: Mick Kalber ; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM 
    Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 4:56 PM
    Subject: Re: Re: road rage...my first experience tonite.. LOCK YOUR DOORS!!!

    When that hand came through MY window,I'd have rolled it up ASAP and seen how many fingers were left when he finally got it out.  A cigarette butane lighter might've been fun.  Hell, he didn't need that set of fingerprints anyway, he's got another set on the other hand.  Visegrip could've removed at least a couple fingernails, but time was short and to decide which to do first

    DM&FS

    ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Mick Kalber 
      To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM 
      Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 4:59 PM
      Subject: Re: road rage...my first experience tonite.. LOCK YOUR DOORS!!!

      I suppose everybody has a road rage story... here's mine...

      I pulled out onto a four lane divided highway just behind a truck... as I started to overtake the truck on the left, he cut me off without a turn signal, slowed and went into the left turn lane, again without a turn signal.  I swung past him on the right and made the mistake of flipping him off as I went by.

      He aborted his turn and chased me to the next stoplight... jumped out of his van and started screaming.  I put the window most of the way up and locked the door.  He wanted me out of the car so we could beef... I wanted no part of him.  so he reaches through the slit of the window that was open (maybe two inches or so and smacks me in the nose with the side of his hand... got me good.

      Got his plate number and the name of his company (it was on the side of the truck... duh!).  Went straight to the police department and reported the incident.  Called the company up when I got home and told them their employee had assaulted me and I had reported it to the police.  they knew exactly who I was talking about and aplogized profusely... seems they'd had trouble with him before.  Next think I know he's calling me, pleading with me to drop the charges or he'll lose his job.  I probably should have taken him to court, but I gave him a break (after he almost gave my nose the same treatment).

      But I learned several valuable lessons... don't flip anybody off... you never know what kind of a nut case they may be.  And in case of confrontation, roll the window all the way up.  I'm no fighter... self preservation is much more important than proving the size of my genitals.  And drive defensively... there is no future in getting someplace two minutes faster... who cares?  Besides, if I'm interested in arrival time, what am I doing in a vanagon?

      Mick Kalber
      89 Syncro Westy "Daddeo"
      Tropical Visions Video, Inc.
      62 Halaulani Place
      Hilo, Hawaii 96720
      808-935-5557
      808-935-0066 (fax)
      hotlava@interpac.net
      www.volcanoscapes.com

        ----- Original Message ----- 
        From: JordanVw@AOL.COM 
        To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM 
        Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 11:35 AM
        Subject: Re: road rage...my first experience tonite.. LOCK YOUR DOORS!!!

        In a message dated 2/10/01 2:17:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
        jwalker17@earthlink.net writes: 

          can't let it ruin your life, and make you afraid to go 
          out. that's what i don't like about SUVs ... they tend to promote that 
          sort of temperment in their drivers (i'm more important than anybody 
          else on the road!!!). 

        i agree..   Alot of SUV drivers get that pumped up testosterone level "im the 
        king of the road-dont mess with me" attitude.. That, and maybe he was trying 
        to "impress" his girlfriend (who was sitting in the SUV the whole time) with 
        his "tactfulnes" (read: "insane brut force") in handling a situation.  i hope 
        she dumped him after last night.   One of these days he is going to do that 
        to the wrong person...someone who wont back down like i did.  Someone who has 
        a short temper just like him..someone who has a loaded gun in the glovebox. 
        And he'll be dead.. 
        what comes around, goes around, they say... 
        i think i did the right thing , tho. still a little shaky, but calming down.. 

        chris 

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