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by stubbly1972 at 6/30/2009 8:55:08 PM
I am a pretty big wuss in lots of ways. I get reminded of that every now and then.
Friday night (Saturday morning) I was driving home. It was maybe 2:30 am, and I was on a back road in or around Stoughton, MA (I had earlier passed through an intersection in Stoughton. The following incident took place as I was trying to proceed on a roughly west-south-west course, an attempt which led me back to the same damn Stoughton intersection. I guess if I'm gonna wander around like that, I need a GPS, or maybe a glow-in-the-dark compass)
It was hot, so I had the window open. I was driving fairly slowly, waiting for an intersection where I could decide whether to turn or keep going straight. A car came up behind me, and I didn't want to have it pushing me to go faster, or have it stuck behind me as I was crawling along (cuz I'm considerate), so I put on my right turn signal and pulled over to the side to let it pass me. *Possibly* I didn't get over as far right as I could have, but there was no traffic on the left so it had plenty of room to pass. The car passed next to me, and someone inside yelled at me, very audibly through my open window, jarringly, what sounded like "Chickis!"
Now, maybe you can tell what he actually said, but I have no idea what it might have been. I can't think of anything that sounds like "Chickis" that also makes sense. Genius? Chicken? S#!t-kiss? Chick-ass? None of them sound quite right.
That's just the sort of thing that slightly traumatizes me. When I'm just trying to go about my business, and someone casually smashes my peace of mind, it shakes me up. My stomach got all tight, and I tried to breathe deeply to relax. I flicked my high-beams at the car in revenge, and even that might have been a bad idea, because you never know when you're dealing with somebody who's waiting for a reason to pull a u-turn and hit you in the face with a shotgun. But the car went ahead, and I drove slowly so it could get away.
Also, I get deeply offended by that sort of alpha-male BS. There are too many people out there who have a real need to make themselves feel worthwhile by ruining your day. This was probably a young guy, in his twenties or even a teenager. Being insecure, I assume he's someone who gets laid more than I do (no great feat), which just makes it worse. Of course, he might have been having a bad night, maybe even been acting out of sexual frustration. Maybe he just had a bad break-up with his girlfriend. She'd gotten sick of his bad attitude, didn't like the way he kept belittling her, and maybe she would have let that stuff slide but for the fact that she's creeped out because he only has one testicle (he wants to remind her that he does have a second testicle that's just very, very small, but he finds it humiliating to have to say that).
Maybe the guy actually did say "Chickis." Maybe he did it so that, in addition to shaking up my equilibrium, he denied me any peace of mind I might have had in knowing exactly why he was angry at me.
Or maybe he said "Chickis" by accident because he was drunk. That would have been kind of cool, because then he could have gotten into a deadly crash a few minutes later. I really don't normally wish that kind of thing on anybody, but he was mean to me.
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