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All VW owners not created equal
Wonder why it took 3 hours for my post to appear in my mailbox???
Very entertaining story!
Sad when some jackoff doesn't know a Scirocco is a VW.
Smug and happy in his stupidity!
Another day, another commute!
On 9/7/05, Chris Bennett <scirocco16vr32@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ya know... I have tried this before... Many times in fact.
>
> I guess it's too many moving parts. Thank you all that started posts for me...
>
> So I was on my way in to work this morning...
>
> Hampton Roads, Virginia has some of the worst bottlenecks in the
> country. And I thought I-5 in Seattle was bad. The problem is that
> there are several tunnels and no matter how much they widen the
> surrounding roads, I don't think they've perfected widening tunnels
> yet--so it narrows down to two lanes.
>
> And of course the closer it is to 7am the thicker and more miserable
> the traffic is. I woke up at 4:30 so that I could be at work well
> before 7am which is when I "muster" for you not familiar with Navy
> terminology. Well with a wife about to pop, a four year old
> alternating between kicking me in the crotch and the
> kidneys--depending on which way I turned, two whiney cats...I didn't
> get much sleep and I realized at about 0630 that I needed to get out
> of bed. Well on a good day with no traffic it takes me about 20
> minutes to get there, so mustering on time wasn't an option. I called
> work and muttered something about loan paperwork to fill up my tank
> and got in the shower. I am dressed, shaved, eyeballs inserted
> (contacts) ready to go about 6:55. Grabbed a cookie and a Dew;
> breakfast of champions and run out to the car. I KNOW that it's going
> to be an HOUR to get to work with traffic this time of the morning.
> So off I go.
>
> I-64 is the main artery in these parts and it gets clogged like a fat
> man eating... well cookies and Mt Dew for breakfast (haha couldn't
> resist) I get all the way to 564 which is the turn off for the
> Norfolk base and that's a nightmare as traffic is bumper to bumper at
> 60 mph, and the same exit lane is also a merge lane so you have people
> coming and going from that one. 564 entrance hooks around to join 4
> more lanes (from the other direction of 64) for 5 total and two of
> those IMMEDIATELY exit to go to Terminal Blvd. The other three lanes
> go on to the base. So for me in the morning merging onto 564 I have
> to get to the middle of the 5 lanes in the space of a couple hundred
> feet. Cross two lanes fighting for a hole at highway speeds. Then of
> course there are people coming FROM those three lanes trying to exit
> on Terminal Blvd. Traffic is almost completely stopped in the two
> lanes I am trying to cross and the far three was moving at 25 mph or
> so, with the occasional idiot doing 50+ mph in tight quarters. So I
> get to the center lane and there is a lady in a Aveo sitting there at
> a dead stop waiting to get in the lane I had just recently been in to
> the right.
>
> So here comes the aforementioned idiot... barreling down on me when I
> am stuck behind the Aveo at a dead stop. He whips by me and lays on
> the horn, driving a Passat. By this point I am already rather
> frustrated as I am nearly an hour late now. Oh really? Ok fucker.
> Miss Aveo gets out of my way and I tromp the accelerator, I redlined
> every gear and I have no idea how fast I was going when I saw the cop.
> I slowed down, avoided the bacon, and got up along side the dude in
> the Passat. I was hoping like hell he wasn't one of my OWN superior
> Officers because I was going to be in alot of trouble if he was. It
> was a civilian contractor, luckily and I started screaming at him.
> WTF are you doing driving like that you stupid SOB, MF this and
> that... filth foul filth foul filth filth!!!
>
> Something to that effect... Do you know what he said to me?!?
>
> "You shouldn't have stopped that piece of shit in the middle of the
> road... What is that thing a Honda?"
>
> I swear to God if I could have gotten out of the car... I would be
> sending this email from jail. Traffic was still moving and he started
> pulling away from me... So I said the only thing I could think of...
>
> "It's a VOLKSWAGEN you ASS HAT!!!"
>
> Sadly at that point we were nearing the guard shacks and he got away
> from me. I was so enraged I thought I was going to have to gnaw on my
> friggin steering wheel. (I have done that before.)
>
> I know that I need anger managment :) But back to the title of the thread...
>
> All VW owners are not like those on this list... I am glad like hell
> all of you are the way you are.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> On 9/7/05, Dan Bubb <dan.bubb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Uh.....
> > You pick "create mail", or "new mail" or "compose mail" depending on
> > what your email program has to start a new email and you simpy address
> > it to
> > "scirocco-l@scirocco.org"
> > Tada!!!!
> >
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