Originally Posted by kadeshpa,Jun 23 2006, 12:02 PM

I don't blindly give respect. I don't care how old, rich, poor, whatever you are, if you disrepect me, you'll get it right back ten-fold. My first interaction will be of respect, that quickly goes away once something is done to lose it. Hopefully you were taught to have enough self respect to stand up for yourself instead of being a doormat.

And yes, I really do that. I kept the language mild because the thread didn't warrant it. However when an old geezer with nothing better to do than curse and harrass simply because I'm walking my dog (leashed) in a park...well you're gonna get it.

Originally Posted by Spec_Ops2087,Jun 24 2006, 07:31 AM

I ALWAYS have old people yelling at me when I go down my street. There seems to be a lot of them and since its a pretty quiet street, I guess they don't appreciate an invidia+TP s2k coming down the street . They always tell me to slow down and I just drive by like I didn't hear / care because I (usually) never go above 30 anyway due to kids being idiots and running into the street.

However, this one time (at band camp) some guy ran out into the middle of the street just wailing his arms all over the place completly freaking out at me. I just drove around him and never stoped as I didn't want a confrotation (I suck at spelling and spell check doesn't work). Anyway, I heard him say slow the **** down, so naturally I floor it all the way down the street just to piss him off and show him I wasn't going fast until he told me to slow down. Later he actually came to my house and started freaking out on me saying I have to slow down, I have kids, and "I have a vette and I whomp it in the right areas" -- all this being in a very nasty tone. I just come back saying I was going 25 till you freaked out on me, if your kids are stupid enough to play in the street maybe a car will teach them not to, and your automatic early 90s vette should be considered a boat and not a car. He just left and so far I havn't had a problem with him since.

You have to stand up for yourself sometimes and not just take crap from everyone.

Originally Posted by S2020,Jun 22 2006, 07:14 PM

some old person yelled at me last month. First she honked, the she gunned her car to come around me and yelled "you're going too slow sonny!"
my top was down and I was just enjoying a nice leisurely cruise home from work.
she looks like she's 60
my face -->

Originally Posted by mav,Jun 26 2006, 04:33 AM

I had a few bad run-ins with old people. This one old man in his 60's was cursing at me in Spanish, thinking I wouldn't understand. He was quite shocked when I replied in Spanish and cursed him out.

And about respect, I never respect people that don't respect me.

Originally Posted by Scot,Jun 26 2006, 07:44 AM

wow... this thread make me feel like a very normal person.

Originally Posted by C_Unit,Jun 22 2006, 10:17 AM

hah... i've had that same thing happen before. i think they just assume you're driving fast because of your car.

this one time i was behind a lady in her late 50s in a cabriolet and we both had our tops down. she was smoking and i was bumping my stereo... we both happen to pull into the same parking lot to grab coffee at the same place. she's about to walk into the coffee shop and she stops in her tracks, turns around and goes "you should turn your music down, you're polluting my air with that crap music." and i just said "you should stop smoking, you're polluting my air with that ciggerette." i think she forgot she was smoking and she looks down and tosses the ciggerette and just walks in. I was kind of embaressed though... i've never been disrespectful like that to someone older than me, but it just came out cause it was TRUE. geez.