The Day That Could Be Your Day

One of the things maturity will impart in a man is that when you fuck around, finding out is a thing that can happen. This is one of the things I’ll never understand about road rage, do you know anything about this other individual you’re raging on? 

He could be a loose cannon, or this could be a reserved gentleman, but this is the day he finally snaps. Other stuff was going on in his life, maybe his wife left him, he’s going bankrupt, etc. Lots of serious problems can transpire in a man’s life causing him to spiral, and now you just fucked with him on the road. 

Perhaps he’s got a pistol in the glove box, or maybe he comes at you with a tire iron or some other close quarters improvised weapon. Anything can happen, and I’ve seen anything happen, so I can appreciate that a random individual could fuck with another random individual without realizing this is the wrong man at the wrong time or what this wrong man is capable of doing in response.

It used to be normal that guys would drive around in their pickup trucks with a shotgun rack. This was totally fine and non-threatening, but you also knew that this was a redneck man with one or two shotguns at his immediate disposal, so caution was advised. In the South, people are naturally usually polite drivers anyways, which is a sharp contrast to much of America and the world where ruthlessness and a disregard for human life is the order of the day. 

The other thing is that folks have important things to do, such as earning a living or attending to various responsibilities or going to the hospital. One should not obstruct them from transporting themselves to various places during the course of these activities. This will provoke righteous infuriation as you possess zero moral prerogative to obstruct them.

Another thing with which I’m quite familiar is that all over the world there are White men from America who found themselves a native wife and are holed up doing whatever, maybe he has a bar or something shady going on. These are not conventional persons who could lead a normal life. “Edgy” would be a polite way of putting it. 

For example, a friend of mine was one such individual who owned a tropical shack/bar. He was ex-special forces and a very large man who’d tell me graphic stories about killing people during his service to Uncle Sam. I don’t care about these things, but he’d scare the other customers. He was an interesting individual who’d collect his disability from Uncle Sam and that was fine to get him by in this country, but he wasn’t suitable for life in modern America. 

He had a petite native wife who asked him when he was angry what he’d do, so he told her he’d snap her neck with his bare hands and take their kids to the airport and be gone long before anyone found her body. That kept her in line I suppose. As far as I know, she’s still alive. The point is that this was not the sort of White man to agitate when he’s driving to wherever he’s driving, and they’re peppered all over the globe.  

I’ve been genuinely surprised that these road blocker climate change nutjobs haven’t had some guy with a delivery schedule get out of his truck and take a baseball bat to their brains. What doesn’t shock me is that these people are nutjobs, but how gentle they’ve been treated. As far as I’m concerned from a moral standpoint, if that’s what you’re doing you deserve whatever action some irate motorist decides to take against you, although I don’t advocate violence or condone it in any form. 

I came across a story this morning in the Daily Mail about how a 77-year-old American in Panama named Kenneth Darlington decided he’d had enough. Alright, let’s read the following:

Video and pictures show how he stormed up the road from his car to the road block and starts arguing with the group, mostly made up of teachers.

He then takes a handgun out of his pocket and then begins clearing the barricade on the motorway, still arguing with protesters.

TVN reported Darlington asked several teachers who the leaders of the demonstration were. The protesting teachers told him that there were no leaders, so he replied: ‘I don’t want to talk to women. I want to talk to men.‘ [lol, I respect that old men don’t have time for BS]

One of the demonstrators can be heard saying: ‘Why don’t you shoot?‘ Others shouted at the man: ‘Are you going to kill someone?’ to which Darlington replied: ‘Do you want to be the first?’ according to reports. [when a man has a pistol pointed at you this is a very unwise inquiry]

Darlington exchanged words with the demonstrators and then aimed and fired at the two men. 

My commentary is that this incident played itself out pretty much the way any guy reading this publication would expect. Also, the next thing I’d point out is that a man who’s managed to stick around for 77 years has probably seen plenty but can also calculate on some emotional level that he has very little to lose. I remember when my grandfather was up in that age range, he’d remark that he could die at any time from a heart attack, and it didn’t seem to bother him at all. 

If an irate man has a gun pointed at you threatening specifically to use it on you, don’t taunt this man. This is especially true if it’s an old man with the above mindset. If you do, that could be your fuckin’ day. Let’s read on:

He remained quiet as he was arraigned on homicide and illegal gun possession charges and didn’t show any signs of remorse, according to local media. 

Well, I mean, like I said, what did you expect? You picked the wrong fuckin’ Boomer.