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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, all right, morning, Hey, who's this? Just got back
in the car with Hey, what was your What is
your name?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Hey? Answer me when I talk to you. Hey, Chris,
how are you?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I'm doing well. I'm a recovering road right here.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Oh wait, so recovering? So are you not as bad
as you used to be?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I'm trying to get out of the car left.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
All right, So well, let's back up to some of
the easy stuff. Are you a regular yeller, screamer, finger flipper, steering,
wheel hitter or is that a regular you?
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I don't know about regular build up inside, keep it
internal until someone you know really tuk me out.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Are you a big horn guy?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
No? No, Actually I try to stay off the horn
just because it just makes things worse most of the time.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Oh, so you find it it kind of accelerates everything
if you if you hit the horn.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, it doesn't solve anything the.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
You know, like getting out of the car does. Then
at least they sleep.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
That's how you feel figure out who the real person
is behind the other wheels?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Hey, how many just over? I don't know. I don't
know how old you are, how long you've been driving,
or how long you've been raging.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
How many times have you gotten out of the car
ready to ready to go if you needed to.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
H three or four times? Since moving to DP?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Where did you move here from?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I'll stay New York?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Did you ever get out of the car there?
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
No, this is uh we've developed once I moved here.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
More traffic.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Or traffic rule.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Here we go, here we go.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I have to I have to ask what part of
upstate New York, Rochester.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Albany, Rochester garbage plate? Yeah, there you go, there you go. Hey,
do you know? What do you know? Kevin Legrett? I don't. Okay,
that's fine. He whipped your ass if you got out
of the car.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
All right, Hey, all right, very good, very good. I
appreciate it. And oh, how have you weaned yourself back?
How have you weaned yourself back?
Speaker 7 (02:31):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I guess I just realized it back for my help
and trying to let it be something else's problem as
much as possible, you know what, Good on you.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
It sounds like my maturity maturity has been it. All right,
very good, very good.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Welcome to town, Thank you, sir, Welcome to Line three.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Hi Elliott the morning, Hey, good morning, Hey, who's this?
I'm not going to share my name.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
But back in twenty seventeen, I went to a meet
and greet and got to meet Tom will and shortly
after I got into a road rage incident over a
parking spot where I I opened the car door of
somebody else and punched them in the face.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I can't tell. Do you mention the Tom Wilson park
like at that point? You were like, he fights, I'm
going to I.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Think I just absorbed his energy at that time and
it just came out of me. And I don't even
know what happened. They stole my spot. It was raining,
it was a disgusting day, and I was waiting for
a spot somebody to you know, I guess call their
mom changing a radio station. I don't know. But somebody
swooped in and stole my spot, and I was furious,
(03:39):
and so I got out of my car and before
I knew I was going to do, I opened their
car door and punched them in the face and then
ran away.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Wow, okay, that's that. That's one end of the of
the extreme. Are you a regular well you yell?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Will you scream?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Not necessarily even at somebody, but just in the car.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Are you a big horn person.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Absolutely I am, and proud of it. This has never
happened again, I you know. Coincidentally enough, two days later,
the police woke me up at my house and I
thought I was caught, but no, it wasn't for that.
And yes, I'm a horn person. I laid on it yesterday.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
It was a big truck in front of me. So
you're a you're a horn person, Diana, You a horn person.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Not always.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
I go through fits in in in pieces of being
a horn person, but I'm usually not an angry horn person.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Like I don't mind.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Honking somebody, like listen, we all get distracted, right, and
so if they're distracted but the light's green, I'll I'll
give a little touch to get them going. Or if
somebody is like backing out of a spot and they're
not paying attention, I'll give them a little horn so
that they know.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
And then there are times, but then there's the angry horn.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah, where you're you're letting it, where you're lighting the up,
that's you, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Yes, absolutely, yesterday I made sure to honk my horn
right as I got next to somebody to cut me off,
and their window was way down, so it definitely got them.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Do you agree with what I think?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
His name was Chris from Rochester said that the horn
tends to accelerate things.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Ooh, I don't know, but I'm always told not to
use the horn.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Because it accelerates things. I do think.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
I do think that Chris is more right than wrong,
even if it's just the little tap like that.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
I think when you when you invoke the horn, because like,
for example, I've been flipped off, I've been yelled at
and just whatever, you just go whatever. When somebody gives
you the horn, the first thing you go is oh, hank,
you know, like you respond like, oh go honk your whatever,
and you get after it a little bit. I hear,
I hear that. I can understand that. All right, very good. Hey,
(05:58):
by the way, not related to this, you thought you
were in trouble for the punch when the cops showed up.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
What were the cops showing up for? One question?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
So four cars across our could a stack were completely vandalized,
and the cops were coming door to door to ask
what happened. And I had nothing to do with that
and immediately answered the door and said nope, and then
went right back to bed.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Oh there you go. All right, all right, very good,
very good. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
That's not the answer I was expected. Oh, outstanding assault
charge line seven.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Hi Elliott the morning, Hi Elliott. Hey, who's this?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I'm Shay.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
How are you, Shae? I am doing well. You're a
big road rager. I am.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
My kids make fun of me for it.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I mean they're in their twenties now, but yeah, they
had a discussed an idea that they didn't even need
part time jobs in the summer because they drove around
with me and we had a swear jar.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
All right, So you're a big cuss or are you
a big horn person?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I'm not a big horn person. I'm like you. You know,
when it's necessary, I'll use it. But no, I have
gotten owt to go to the car twice and once
because of a guy that was punking a horn at me,
like four times.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
So the horn is an accelerator. You just don't use it.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
But when somebody does it to you, you're getting out
and ready to lay hands.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I'm ready to go.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
No, the situation, the guy didn't see the sign that
said you can't turn right on red, and he kept
punking at me to go, but I mean it's right
by a metro stop.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
There's cops everywhere.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I wasn't gonna go. So I got out of the
car and asked him if he didn't know how to read.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
It was very nice about it.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Now, has anybody ever tried to like counsel you on,
like step it back, like don't let the rage get
to you?
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
My kids, my two sons, Yeah, they they tell me
I should chill out. You are a great help, and
so why I listen to you every morning keep me
from losing my mind every day on Fairfax County Parkway.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It's very kind of you, and I'm glad that I
could help. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. For example.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
I was reading about so a lot of times with
people who rage, they're trying to find ways to get
them to de escalate, right so that it doesn't advance
and you're not getting out of the car and fighting
and god forbid. I mean, we've seen a million videos.
Guy pulls out of bats. This one's got a gun.
There was just there's just a road rage shooting h
two days ago. So they they were I was reading
(08:50):
what some of the tips are for getting people to
de escalate. And this one, the first one is not
it's in lieu of it's not in lieu of using
a horn. But instead of banging on the steering wheel
(09:10):
or flipping someone off, which are all just replacements for
just laying on the horn. Yes, instead of quote laying
on the horn, beat them, bump them no beep now,
so instead of doing that, you would.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Just go beat beep with your window down, no with
your mouth.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
So it's this. You get the satisfaction of the noise,
you get that actually provoking somebody.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
You get the satisfaction of horning them without horning them.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Ask an unhinged person how they feel about that one.
Speaker 9 (09:46):
You're exhaling no be b Yeah, but are you taking
and ridding yourself of all that that negative?
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Well, I can't beat I can't do it while I'm
in hailing. You're getting getting it out. Yeah, So it
would be like, and again, you may not be a horner,
you may be a finger person, but instead of flipping
them the rod, just go beep bee.
Speaker 9 (10:15):
Josh writes, Press that horn pussy.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
Unhinged.
Speaker 9 (10:22):
I think the person who's screaming beep in their car
is crazier than the one with the bat.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
That's fine, that's fine. This isn't gonna hurt anybody. This
isn't going to escalate anything.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Bee.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
They also said you can you can say things. Don't yell,
but you can say things inside your own car.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Without provoking that.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
The same thing that you would if you would scream
at somebody.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I am upset that you didn't use your turn signal.
Speaker 9 (10:50):
Oh that's an example.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Yes, so set that you didn't look in your rear
view before backing out. See, I see, I am a
palace said, I am upset that you didn't follow zipper
code instead of laying on the horn or scooching over.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Where are we gonna hit? Or we not beep beep?
Speaker 9 (11:11):
I am concerned because someone on Instagram said that they
have a bullhorn in their car they use.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Oh, by the way, if your screen they really did?
They really?
Speaker 9 (11:18):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
I read about no, I read about one of the
people in that I was reading about they.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Have a bullhorn.
Speaker 9 (11:23):
Well what if this person who's on Instagram thinks they
can yell, beat beep into their bullhorn? They I've never
seen that before.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
There's a I swear to god, there was a person
in here who has a bullhorn and there was a
truck that was blocking the lanes and they opened the
window and yelled.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Move the car on a bullhorn.
Speaker 9 (11:42):
That to me isn't a de escalating No, not at all,
Like that person's crazy.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
They have a bullhorn in their car.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Well, that could de escalate it. If you thought they
were crazy, that could de escalated.
Speaker 9 (11:53):
Oh, but I'm worried that.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I think you would also laugh. Oh if someone busted
out a voice amplifying device.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
And when you laugh at somebody who's unhinged, how does
that usually work out?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
No, because they know at that point that they got
youa they got youa beep beep.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Somebody.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Then the thing that I was reading, they said that
is a that is a anger management technique.
Speaker 9 (12:21):
Speaking your truth to yourself.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I don't know, speaking your truth, but like.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
It's almost like a cleansing breath kind.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Of, but like instead of like flying into an anger
rage of just like beep beep. Like I don't know
what they would tell you in anger management. Maybe they
tell you beep beep.
Speaker 9 (12:37):
I don't know, no, but that's the same thing with
the sentence.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
They probably don't tell you to just open that woman's
card door. And punch her in the face.
Speaker 9 (12:46):
Yeah. I mean, then you're worried about them tripping and
falling and hitting their head. She didn't tell us if
she knocked out the other Well, the other person was
in their car, But did the person fall over?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I don't know. Push the horn, pussy, that's Josh beat me.
Speaker 9 (13:04):
A lot of people have made contact, have they really,
Which is surprising because to me that goes beyond road rage.
I don't mean contact with fist to face. I mean
with the vehicles.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Oh bumping. Yeah, that doesn't surprise me. That is I've
been bumped from behind. I've had somebody pop me from behind.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
Because they were mad that you cut you cut them off?
Speaker 4 (13:24):
No, they were likely the No, No, I did not no,
not paying attention at a light.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Oh instead of just honking you, they ran into you.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Give me a little pop from behind? And what did
you do? I went, oh, yeah, I mean I yelled
at him, big finger up, go after yourself, so.
Speaker 9 (13:45):
Damage the At that point, I can't believe that you
just let it be.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah. No, I mean I I fingered them.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Okay, but what about if your car was damaged?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
They didn't hit me? At twenty miles an hour, you
get this scrape, get a little bump.
Speaker 9 (14:01):
Remember I was not hit very hard from behind, and
I thought someone shot at me. It doesn't take much.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
You also thought when a student threw a piece of
paper that hit your car, that somebody's shot it.
Speaker 9 (14:11):
No, No, I just knew I as you're talking about
different incidents, same road. But it was a bag thrown
at my car a lot a piece of paper thing.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Hi Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
Hey Elliott, I I kind of make contact. I have
like a forty dollars a month budget for Winch washer
fluid because I will unload an entire tank Winch a
washer fluid on the person behind me if they're they're tailgating,
are being stupid. Nothing is more satisfying than watching them
have to put their wipers on.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
You know what, that's a pretty good one. That is
a pretty because.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
It doesn't hurt anybody the.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
No, but it is a big and can be I
hate it. I do hate it.
Speaker 8 (14:53):
My wife is so trained that when I put the
washer flute on, she automatically looks behind us to see
who's doing something.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Hey, where do you get? I assu because that's funny.
That is funny. Where where do you live?
Speaker 8 (15:04):
I'm in Lothian, see idiots all over the place.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Where are you from? Originally?
Speaker 8 (15:11):
Originally from New York? Okay, I was gonna say threshold, Yeah,
my dad, My dad taught me, well.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Back in the day, there you go. What part of
New York are we run on?
Speaker 8 (15:20):
Long Island? Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Okay, yeah, I was gonna say, I'm not here. Oh,
very good.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
The buttafucos, all right, very good, Thank you, my friend,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Come on, I got bullet in my head.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Line.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Three. Hi, elliot the morning, Hey, good morning. Hey. Who's this?
This is Walter? Hey, Walter, what can I do for you?
All right?
Speaker 7 (15:44):
So a few years ago, I was cruising down this
main street headed to the local home depot, and uh,
I went to go get over, and this guy was
doing about sixty down the road, and it made me
slam on my brakes and all my tools went flying
in the back of my truck, and.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
So I chased him.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
I chased him all the way down to the local
home depot, and I ended up chasing him around the
parking lot and I parked my truck and I got
out and I grabbed the two by four out of
my truck and I chased him out, chased him around
the parking lot with a two by four.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
At no point did you think I'll just go beat.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
Beat, beat, beap, you know, to be to be straight
with you guys, I was in my first couple of
months of sobriety. So I'm a twelve.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Stepper and uh, yeah, that was that was a very
humbling experience.
Speaker 7 (16:32):
Hey, do you want to hear you want to hear
the best part?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Yeah? Sure.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
The best part is one day I walk out on
my back deck and you know, it's about ten am,
and you know, sons out, s nice, you know, looking
over the fence, and I see the guy. I go, oh, shoot,
this guy's working at my neighbor's house right behind me.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
You got to be kidding me, right, he's my neighbor.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Did he ever put two and two together?
Speaker 9 (17:04):
No?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I think he was.
Speaker 7 (17:06):
He was not a part of the twelve step program.
If you know what I mean, I got it. Yeah,
so you know, you know, again, I'm still in my
first few months of sobriety. So I called my sponsor.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
I go, hey, man, what do I do?
Speaker 7 (17:19):
And he goes, I don't think right, now it would
be a good time for you to practice the Amend's process,
you know, you know. But the cool part behind that
was me and my kid were painting his playhouse one day. Right,
we're painting and this guy behind me puts the sprinkler on.
So the sprinkler's coming over the fence and we're painting.
It's getting on our paint job, and I'm like, shoot,
(17:40):
now I got to talk to him, you know.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
So I jump up on the fence.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
I go, hey, mann, can you move your sprinkler?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
We're painting over here.
Speaker 7 (17:46):
And I said, when you get a second, come back,
I want to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
And he comes back over.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
He goes, what's up. I go, hey man, I don't
know if you remember me, but I'm the.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
One that chased you at home depot. He goes, that's
all good man, that was Yeah. Hey, how long? Let
me ask you that. How long? How long? How long
you've been sober? Three and a half years, sir? Hey,
good for.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
You, Good for you, congratulations man, good for you. Hey,
I appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Let me grab line six real quick. Hi Ellie in
the morning, Ellie, Hey, who's this Jeremy? Hey, what's up, Jeremy.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I have pushed me a few mirs off the cars
riding the bike.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
There you go, bepep.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Why keep it
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Beep
Hello, all right, morning, Hey, who's this? Just got back
in the car with Hey, what was your What is
your name?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Hey? Answer me when I talk to you. Hey, Chris,
how are you?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I'm doing well. I'm a recovering road right here.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Oh wait, so recovering? So are you not as bad
as you used to be?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I'm trying to get out of the car left.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
All right, So well, let's back up to some of
the easy stuff. Are you a regular yeller, screamer, finger flipper, steering,
wheel hitter or is that a regular you?
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I don't know about regular build up inside, keep it
internal until someone you know really tuk me out.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Are you a big horn guy?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
No? No, Actually I try to stay off the horn
just because it just makes things worse most of the time.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Oh, so you find it it kind of accelerates everything
if you if you hit the horn.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, it doesn't solve anything the.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
You know, like getting out of the car does. Then
at least they sleep.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
That's how you feel figure out who the real person
is behind the other wheels?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Hey, how many just over? I don't know. I don't
know how old you are, how long you've been driving,
or how long you've been raging.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
How many times have you gotten out of the car
ready to ready to go if you needed to.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
H three or four times? Since moving to DP?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Where did you move here from?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I'll stay New York?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Did you ever get out of the car there?
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
No, this is uh we've developed once I moved here.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
More traffic.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Or traffic rule.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Here we go, here we go.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I have to I have to ask what part of
upstate New York, Rochester.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Albany, Rochester garbage plate? Yeah, there you go, there you go. Hey,
do you know? What do you know? Kevin Legrett? I don't. Okay,
that's fine. He whipped your ass if you got out
of the car.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
All right, Hey, all right, very good, very good. I
appreciate it. And oh, how have you weaned yourself back?
How have you weaned yourself back?
Speaker 7 (02:31):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I guess I just realized it back for my help
and trying to let it be something else's problem as
much as possible, you know what, Good on you.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
It sounds like my maturity maturity has been it. All right,
very good, very good.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Welcome to town, Thank you, sir, Welcome to Line three.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Hi Elliott the morning, Hey, good morning, Hey, who's this?
I'm not going to share my name.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
But back in twenty seventeen, I went to a meet
and greet and got to meet Tom will and shortly
after I got into a road rage incident over a
parking spot where I I opened the car door of
somebody else and punched them in the face.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I can't tell. Do you mention the Tom Wilson park
like at that point? You were like, he fights, I'm
going to I.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Think I just absorbed his energy at that time and
it just came out of me. And I don't even
know what happened. They stole my spot. It was raining,
it was a disgusting day, and I was waiting for
a spot somebody to you know, I guess call their
mom changing a radio station. I don't know. But somebody
swooped in and stole my spot, and I was furious,
(03:39):
and so I got out of my car and before
I knew I was going to do, I opened their
car door and punched them in the face and then
ran away.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Wow, okay, that's that. That's one end of the of
the extreme. Are you a regular well you yell?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Will you scream?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Not necessarily even at somebody, but just in the car.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Are you a big horn person.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Absolutely I am, and proud of it. This has never
happened again, I you know. Coincidentally enough, two days later,
the police woke me up at my house and I
thought I was caught, but no, it wasn't for that.
And yes, I'm a horn person. I laid on it yesterday.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
It was a big truck in front of me. So
you're a you're a horn person, Diana, You a horn person.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Not always.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
I go through fits in in in pieces of being
a horn person, but I'm usually not an angry horn person.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Like I don't mind.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Honking somebody, like listen, we all get distracted, right, and
so if they're distracted but the light's green, I'll I'll
give a little touch to get them going. Or if
somebody is like backing out of a spot and they're
not paying attention, I'll give them a little horn so
that they know.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
And then there are times, but then there's the angry horn.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah, where you're you're letting it, where you're lighting the up,
that's you, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Yes, absolutely, yesterday I made sure to honk my horn
right as I got next to somebody to cut me off,
and their window was way down, so it definitely got them.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Do you agree with what I think?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
His name was Chris from Rochester said that the horn
tends to accelerate things.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Ooh, I don't know, but I'm always told not to
use the horn.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Because it accelerates things. I do think.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
I do think that Chris is more right than wrong,
even if it's just the little tap like that.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
I think when you when you invoke the horn, because like,
for example, I've been flipped off, I've been yelled at
and just whatever, you just go whatever. When somebody gives
you the horn, the first thing you go is oh, hank,
you know, like you respond like, oh go honk your whatever,
and you get after it a little bit. I hear,
I hear that. I can understand that. All right, very good. Hey,
(05:58):
by the way, not related to this, you thought you
were in trouble for the punch when the cops showed up.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
What were the cops showing up for? One question?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
So four cars across our could a stack were completely vandalized,
and the cops were coming door to door to ask
what happened. And I had nothing to do with that
and immediately answered the door and said nope, and then
went right back to bed.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Oh there you go. All right, all right, very good,
very good. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
That's not the answer I was expected. Oh, outstanding assault
charge line seven.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Hi Elliott the morning, Hi Elliott. Hey, who's this?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I'm Shay.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
How are you, Shae? I am doing well. You're a
big road rager. I am.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
My kids make fun of me for it.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I mean they're in their twenties now, but yeah, they
had a discussed an idea that they didn't even need
part time jobs in the summer because they drove around
with me and we had a swear jar.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
All right, So you're a big cuss or are you
a big horn person?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I'm not a big horn person. I'm like you. You know,
when it's necessary, I'll use it. But no, I have
gotten owt to go to the car twice and once
because of a guy that was punking a horn at me,
like four times.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
So the horn is an accelerator. You just don't use it.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
But when somebody does it to you, you're getting out
and ready to lay hands.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I'm ready to go.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
No, the situation, the guy didn't see the sign that
said you can't turn right on red, and he kept
punking at me to go, but I mean it's right
by a metro stop.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
There's cops everywhere.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I wasn't gonna go. So I got out of the
car and asked him if he didn't know how to read.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
It was very nice about it.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Now, has anybody ever tried to like counsel you on,
like step it back, like don't let the rage get
to you?
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
My kids, my two sons, Yeah, they they tell me
I should chill out. You are a great help, and
so why I listen to you every morning keep me
from losing my mind every day on Fairfax County Parkway.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It's very kind of you, and I'm glad that I
could help. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. For example.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
I was reading about so a lot of times with
people who rage, they're trying to find ways to get
them to de escalate, right so that it doesn't advance
and you're not getting out of the car and fighting
and god forbid. I mean, we've seen a million videos.
Guy pulls out of bats. This one's got a gun.
There was just there's just a road rage shooting h
two days ago. So they they were I was reading
(08:50):
what some of the tips are for getting people to
de escalate. And this one, the first one is not
it's in lieu of it's not in lieu of using
a horn. But instead of banging on the steering wheel
(09:10):
or flipping someone off, which are all just replacements for
just laying on the horn. Yes, instead of quote laying
on the horn, beat them, bump them no beep now,
so instead of doing that, you would.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Just go beat beep with your window down, no with
your mouth.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
So it's this. You get the satisfaction of the noise,
you get that actually provoking somebody.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
You get the satisfaction of horning them without horning them.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Ask an unhinged person how they feel about that one.
Speaker 9 (09:46):
You're exhaling no be b Yeah, but are you taking
and ridding yourself of all that that negative?
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Well, I can't beat I can't do it while I'm
in hailing. You're getting getting it out. Yeah, So it
would be like, and again, you may not be a horner,
you may be a finger person, but instead of flipping
them the rod, just go beep bee.
Speaker 9 (10:15):
Josh writes, Press that horn pussy.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
Unhinged.
Speaker 9 (10:22):
I think the person who's screaming beep in their car
is crazier than the one with the bat.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
That's fine, that's fine. This isn't gonna hurt anybody. This
isn't going to escalate anything.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Bee.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
They also said you can you can say things. Don't yell,
but you can say things inside your own car.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Without provoking that.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
The same thing that you would if you would scream
at somebody.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I am upset that you didn't use your turn signal.
Speaker 9 (10:50):
Oh that's an example.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Yes, so set that you didn't look in your rear
view before backing out. See, I see, I am a
palace said, I am upset that you didn't follow zipper
code instead of laying on the horn or scooching over.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Where are we gonna hit? Or we not beep beep?
Speaker 9 (11:11):
I am concerned because someone on Instagram said that they
have a bullhorn in their car they use.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Oh, by the way, if your screen they really did?
They really?
Speaker 9 (11:18):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
I read about no, I read about one of the
people in that I was reading about they.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Have a bullhorn.
Speaker 9 (11:23):
Well what if this person who's on Instagram thinks they
can yell, beat beep into their bullhorn? They I've never
seen that before.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
There's a I swear to god, there was a person
in here who has a bullhorn and there was a
truck that was blocking the lanes and they opened the
window and yelled.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Move the car on a bullhorn.
Speaker 9 (11:42):
That to me isn't a de escalating No, not at all,
Like that person's crazy.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
They have a bullhorn in their car.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Well, that could de escalate it. If you thought they
were crazy, that could de escalated.
Speaker 9 (11:53):
Oh, but I'm worried that.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I think you would also laugh. Oh if someone busted
out a voice amplifying device.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
And when you laugh at somebody who's unhinged, how does
that usually work out?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
No, because they know at that point that they got
youa they got youa beep beep.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Somebody.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Then the thing that I was reading, they said that
is a that is a anger management technique.
Speaker 9 (12:21):
Speaking your truth to yourself.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I don't know, speaking your truth, but like.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
It's almost like a cleansing breath kind.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Of, but like instead of like flying into an anger
rage of just like beep beep. Like I don't know
what they would tell you in anger management. Maybe they
tell you beep beep.
Speaker 9 (12:37):
I don't know, no, but that's the same thing with
the sentence.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
They probably don't tell you to just open that woman's
card door. And punch her in the face.
Speaker 9 (12:46):
Yeah. I mean, then you're worried about them tripping and
falling and hitting their head. She didn't tell us if
she knocked out the other Well, the other person was
in their car, But did the person fall over?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I don't know. Push the horn, pussy, that's Josh beat me.
Speaker 9 (13:04):
A lot of people have made contact, have they really,
Which is surprising because to me that goes beyond road rage.
I don't mean contact with fist to face. I mean
with the vehicles.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Oh bumping. Yeah, that doesn't surprise me. That is I've
been bumped from behind. I've had somebody pop me from behind.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
Because they were mad that you cut you cut them off?
Speaker 4 (13:24):
No, they were likely the No, No, I did not no,
not paying attention at a light.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Oh instead of just honking you, they ran into you.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Give me a little pop from behind? And what did
you do? I went, oh, yeah, I mean I yelled
at him, big finger up, go after yourself, so.
Speaker 9 (13:45):
Damage the At that point, I can't believe that you
just let it be.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah. No, I mean I I fingered them.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Okay, but what about if your car was damaged?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
They didn't hit me? At twenty miles an hour, you
get this scrape, get a little bump.
Speaker 9 (14:01):
Remember I was not hit very hard from behind, and
I thought someone shot at me. It doesn't take much.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
You also thought when a student threw a piece of
paper that hit your car, that somebody's shot it.
Speaker 9 (14:11):
No, No, I just knew I as you're talking about
different incidents, same road. But it was a bag thrown
at my car a lot a piece of paper thing.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Hi Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
Hey Elliott, I I kind of make contact. I have
like a forty dollars a month budget for Winch washer
fluid because I will unload an entire tank Winch a
washer fluid on the person behind me if they're they're tailgating,
are being stupid. Nothing is more satisfying than watching them
have to put their wipers on.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
You know what, that's a pretty good one. That is
a pretty because.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
It doesn't hurt anybody the.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
No, but it is a big and can be I
hate it. I do hate it.
Speaker 8 (14:53):
My wife is so trained that when I put the
washer flute on, she automatically looks behind us to see
who's doing something.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Hey, where do you get? I assu because that's funny.
That is funny. Where where do you live?
Speaker 8 (15:04):
I'm in Lothian, see idiots all over the place.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Where are you from? Originally?
Speaker 8 (15:11):
Originally from New York? Okay, I was gonna say threshold, Yeah,
my dad, My dad taught me, well.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Back in the day, there you go. What part of
New York are we run on?
Speaker 8 (15:20):
Long Island? Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Okay, yeah, I was gonna say, I'm not here. Oh,
very good.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
The buttafucos, all right, very good, Thank you, my friend,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Come on, I got bullet in my head.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Line.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Three. Hi, elliot the morning, Hey, good morning. Hey. Who's this?
This is Walter? Hey, Walter, what can I do for you?
All right?
Speaker 7 (15:44):
So a few years ago, I was cruising down this
main street headed to the local home depot, and uh,
I went to go get over, and this guy was
doing about sixty down the road, and it made me
slam on my brakes and all my tools went flying
in the back of my truck, and.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
So I chased him.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
I chased him all the way down to the local
home depot, and I ended up chasing him around the
parking lot and I parked my truck and I got
out and I grabbed the two by four out of
my truck and I chased him out, chased him around
the parking lot with a two by four.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
At no point did you think I'll just go beat.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
Beat, beat, beap, you know, to be to be straight
with you guys, I was in my first couple of
months of sobriety. So I'm a twelve.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Stepper and uh, yeah, that was that was a very
humbling experience.
Speaker 7 (16:32):
Hey, do you want to hear you want to hear
the best part?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Yeah? Sure.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
The best part is one day I walk out on
my back deck and you know, it's about ten am,
and you know, sons out, s nice, you know, looking
over the fence, and I see the guy. I go, oh, shoot,
this guy's working at my neighbor's house right behind me.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
You got to be kidding me, right, he's my neighbor.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Did he ever put two and two together?
Speaker 9 (17:04):
No?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I think he was.
Speaker 7 (17:06):
He was not a part of the twelve step program.
If you know what I mean, I got it. Yeah,
so you know, you know, again, I'm still in my
first few months of sobriety. So I called my sponsor.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
I go, hey, man, what do I do?
Speaker 7 (17:19):
And he goes, I don't think right, now it would
be a good time for you to practice the Amend's process,
you know, you know. But the cool part behind that
was me and my kid were painting his playhouse one day. Right,
we're painting and this guy behind me puts the sprinkler on.
So the sprinkler's coming over the fence and we're painting.
It's getting on our paint job, and I'm like, shoot,
(17:40):
now I got to talk to him, you know.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
So I jump up on the fence.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
I go, hey, mann, can you move your sprinkler?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
We're painting over here.
Speaker 7 (17:46):
And I said, when you get a second, come back,
I want to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
And he comes back over.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
He goes, what's up. I go, hey man, I don't
know if you remember me, but I'm the.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
One that chased you at home depot. He goes, that's
all good man, that was Yeah. Hey, how long? Let
me ask you that. How long? How long? How long
you've been sober? Three and a half years, sir? Hey,
good for.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
You, Good for you, congratulations man, good for you. Hey,
I appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Let me grab line six real quick. Hi Ellie in
the morning, Ellie, Hey, who's this Jeremy? Hey, what's up, Jeremy.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I have pushed me a few mirs off the cars
riding the bike.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
There you go, bepep.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Why keep it
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Beep
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