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Well, this happened to me on my way back to Texas from an enjoyable prospecting trip with Bumper in Arizona this past week. I gotta first tell ya that we also went to the range for some paper bustin and darn if my Kimber didn't break the end off the extractor....nothing more embarrassing than a single-shot 1911 :frown:
I was on the I-10 east of Van Horn Texas heading for the I-20 split towards Ft. Worth when the road started closing down to one lane each way for construction....hardly any traffic at all in this remote area and I was perhaps 100 ft behind a semi and slowing down with it as we were entering to one lane. Suddenly, some bozo in a Honda SUV seemed to come outta nowhere and crammed-in between me and the semi with only one car length ahead of me. I let off the gas and tapped the break to give some distance and started my usual rendition of simple neanderthal noises spattered with some select adjectives and adverbs...a few nouns too.....only to myself though, wasn't flashing my headlights or honkin the horn....just settled back and figured the idiot was just in a hurry.
Well, the construction was about 10 miles long and the idiot was riding close off the semi's rear and seemed to be judging whether he could pass it on the right or not....could believe this moron. We soon came up on a highway exit and this guy swerves off to the exit.....Good Riddens !!....at least I thought. I closed the distance on the semi and settled back for the remaining few miles til I could pass him.....doggone, the "idiot" had taken the exit to try passing via the service road....as the semi, then I, passed the on-ramp....here comes the idiot back on, and cut just in front of me....this time less than a frickin car length....I had to break harder this time...let out some louder neanderthal noises and repeated, perhaps in reverse order, the select words. Holy cow what an idiot. I layed back until we broke out into 3 lanes again, just a couple miles from the I-10 and I-20 split...so I moved to the left-most lane and as I passed along side the idiot, I gave him a single-finger salute (yeah, I know, I'm an idiot too, but I was angry this time). Well, did the bozo let that pass? NOPE! He sped up, careened directly in front of me and hit his brakes! ME TOO! from 60 mph to about 20mph real quick....I attempted to go around him, but he kept cutting me off....now I'm starting to worry about another semi barrelin down the freeway behind me....I maneuver to left shoulder (still have butt end stickin out on the road) and stop.
The idiot is about 10 feet in front of me and I'm just waiting to see his next move. Oh yeah, I've already unholstered my "single-shot Kimber" but have kept it out of sight. The Idiot opens his door, sets one foot out on the ground, is yelling something unintelligible but I can tell they aren't nice words...he's pointing to the ground and I interpret that "sign language" to mean he wants me outta my truck now! I just sit there, give a wave of the hand (open) as if to say what's your problem....just get on down the road. He obviously doesn't understand. At this point I see he's produced a tire iron (brandishing a weapon?) He shakes it pretty good too.
Since he doesn't fully exit his vehicle, I decide to just try going around him again...remember, I'm still stickin out in the road. He tries to cut me off again but fails...by this time, we're at the split in the highway, and as luck would have it, he needs to go to I-10 on the right, I'm tooling on to I-20 on the left. We separate, exhanging "pleasantries" out the windows, and he's still waving that tire iron....distance increases and I go about my merry way.
I told Bumper that this was the first "Road Rage" incident I've experienced since carrying and that unlike other situations where I had no protection other than flesh and bone, I felt a calm sense about me as this was playing out and I suspect it because I "knew" that if I had to, I could take this threat out....now, it wasn't comforting knowing that I had essentially a single-shot weapon, but it would have been a fairly close shot. I never revealed my gun during the episode. That may or may not have been an error on my part. Perhaps a greater show of force would have neutralized the situation quicker. Will never know.......Oh yeah, called Kimber the morning I got back...they mailed me a new extractor yesterday...hope it's in the mail tomorrow. :redface:
I was on the I-10 east of Van Horn Texas heading for the I-20 split towards Ft. Worth when the road started closing down to one lane each way for construction....hardly any traffic at all in this remote area and I was perhaps 100 ft behind a semi and slowing down with it as we were entering to one lane. Suddenly, some bozo in a Honda SUV seemed to come outta nowhere and crammed-in between me and the semi with only one car length ahead of me. I let off the gas and tapped the break to give some distance and started my usual rendition of simple neanderthal noises spattered with some select adjectives and adverbs...a few nouns too.....only to myself though, wasn't flashing my headlights or honkin the horn....just settled back and figured the idiot was just in a hurry.
Well, the construction was about 10 miles long and the idiot was riding close off the semi's rear and seemed to be judging whether he could pass it on the right or not....could believe this moron. We soon came up on a highway exit and this guy swerves off to the exit.....Good Riddens !!....at least I thought. I closed the distance on the semi and settled back for the remaining few miles til I could pass him.....doggone, the "idiot" had taken the exit to try passing via the service road....as the semi, then I, passed the on-ramp....here comes the idiot back on, and cut just in front of me....this time less than a frickin car length....I had to break harder this time...let out some louder neanderthal noises and repeated, perhaps in reverse order, the select words. Holy cow what an idiot. I layed back until we broke out into 3 lanes again, just a couple miles from the I-10 and I-20 split...so I moved to the left-most lane and as I passed along side the idiot, I gave him a single-finger salute (yeah, I know, I'm an idiot too, but I was angry this time). Well, did the bozo let that pass? NOPE! He sped up, careened directly in front of me and hit his brakes! ME TOO! from 60 mph to about 20mph real quick....I attempted to go around him, but he kept cutting me off....now I'm starting to worry about another semi barrelin down the freeway behind me....I maneuver to left shoulder (still have butt end stickin out on the road) and stop.
The idiot is about 10 feet in front of me and I'm just waiting to see his next move. Oh yeah, I've already unholstered my "single-shot Kimber" but have kept it out of sight. The Idiot opens his door, sets one foot out on the ground, is yelling something unintelligible but I can tell they aren't nice words...he's pointing to the ground and I interpret that "sign language" to mean he wants me outta my truck now! I just sit there, give a wave of the hand (open) as if to say what's your problem....just get on down the road. He obviously doesn't understand. At this point I see he's produced a tire iron (brandishing a weapon?) He shakes it pretty good too.
Since he doesn't fully exit his vehicle, I decide to just try going around him again...remember, I'm still stickin out in the road. He tries to cut me off again but fails...by this time, we're at the split in the highway, and as luck would have it, he needs to go to I-10 on the right, I'm tooling on to I-20 on the left. We separate, exhanging "pleasantries" out the windows, and he's still waving that tire iron....distance increases and I go about my merry way.
I told Bumper that this was the first "Road Rage" incident I've experienced since carrying and that unlike other situations where I had no protection other than flesh and bone, I felt a calm sense about me as this was playing out and I suspect it because I "knew" that if I had to, I could take this threat out....now, it wasn't comforting knowing that I had essentially a single-shot weapon, but it would have been a fairly close shot. I never revealed my gun during the episode. That may or may not have been an error on my part. Perhaps a greater show of force would have neutralized the situation quicker. Will never know.......Oh yeah, called Kimber the morning I got back...they mailed me a new extractor yesterday...hope it's in the mail tomorrow. :redface:
