RE: Road rage-Bright Red Audi

["Paul Wilson" <pwilson@ma.ultranet.com>]

I think what's really sad is that most of the people acting like a**holes
were
born and raised in the good 'ole US of A.  The immigrants are usually much
more polite.  Maybe this country needs more emmigration.

Good story Igor.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> [mailto:owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net]On Behalf Of Igor Kessel
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 12:59 AM
> To: Audi Q-list
> Subject: Re: Road rage-Bright Red Audi
>
>
> mph180@juno.com wrote:
>
> I
> was driving and a old truck came up next to me, man inside fingerin',
> cursin' , screaming.  Then tries to run me off road, why? I have
> absolutely no idea.  My car, 1993 90 BRIGHT RED, looks brand new and
> super clean (waxed her the night before) Anyhow guy runs at me again (no
> reason) this is enough for me so I speed up and pull over at next
> street,
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> Sad story. Thanks for sharing, Noah.
>
> Here's one of my own:
>
> I am driving my Tornado Red '89 200TQ, all waxed up and shining as if
> awash in paint with flashy MOMO Ferrari wheels and all at about 02:00 on
> I-95 towards Phila International to meet my Mom from LA, who was coming
> for my birthday (the following day). My wife is beside me. I myself am
> in a suite, white shirt and a tie (a typical "yuppie scum" :-).
>
> A Camaro with two rednecks pulls up along, revving the engine, yelling
> and gesturing something obscene. Alternatively tailgating and pulling in
> front, trying to provoke this yuppie scum in a despised furrin' car with
> a good looking blond beside him to show his manhood. Just a healthy dose
> of good ol' redneck hatred towards us yuppie (Young Urban Professionals,
> i.e. people who don't call the 10th grade - "my senior year") scum.
>
> In my youth in Russia in the early '80s we used to solve such incidents
> with a trusty tyre iron, which I always kept under the drivers seat.
>
> Since now I am in my mature years, married and live in the gun-happy
> Pennsylvania I elected to pull out my cell phone instead, dialed 911 and
> reported a drunk, driving erratically and the make and the plate of his
> vehicle. At the very first sight of the cell phone the Camaro vanished
> in the night. End of story.
>
> Do I regret that I failed to raise up to the challenge and prove my
> machismo to a couple of lowlives? Putting at risk my wife on the dark
> and deserted I-95 at 02:00? With my Mom waiting for me at the airport?
> No.
>
> Was I afraid? Hmmm, I served in the Soviet Army, went through the formal
> combat training and shoot better than speak, need I say more...  :-)
>
> Folks, please stay the hell away from the idiots armed with the two most
> dangerous weapons, ownership and operation of which in the USA somehow
> mysteriously do not require a mandatory formal training: a car and a
> gun. Think of your loved ones: could 5 min of triumph outweigh their
> lifelong grief if you wind up seriously hurt or worst yet paralysed or
> killed.
>
> --
> Igor Kessel
> Three turbo quattros
>