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    Tybur6’s Story from Sunday

    Title: Flatbush Avenue in Post-Racial America
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    So, this was the closing salvo to my SIX hour drive from Massachusetts… a journey that should be about 3-1/2 or 4 hours max. Keep in mind that the last 2-3/4 hours were *within* the city limits!! It was about 2:30pm and I was hot and pissed off.

    Here is the story –

    This woman in a minivan (even older and crappier than my car) did this crazy fucking maneuver at the intersection around Empire Blvd and Flatbush Ave… cut me off from the inside as I’m taking a right turn.

    I flipped her off and yelled and honked at her… then I cut her off equally as agressively and got in front of her. 🙂 We then we proceeded down the road… and she tried to cut me off again, by PASSING me in the oncoming traffic lane of Flatbush Ave and tried to squeeze me out. Fucking nutjob. I didn’t let her, left her in the wrong lane and she yelled all sorts of lady-like phrases, with special emphasis on “You’re a white piece of shit!!”

    I said (errr, yelled) back… “You drive like a fucking crazy person and you’re gonna make this racial?!”

    She responds – “Fuck you. This is racial. You’re a white piece of shit! This isn’t the neighborhood to fuck with me!!” etc etc etc (This is in Leffert Gardens around Winthrop… so if you’re white, this is not the neighborhood to fuck with this chemically imbalance, raving bitch in the red minivan.)

    Then a few blocks down the road (maybe around Church), at a stop light, SHE GETS OUT OF HER CAR and runs up to my car and yells and slaps my window and punches my car.

    I was going to call the cops and report her… but surprise surprise!! No front license plate. So, even though this is *her* neighborhood, she has no problem maintaining her car registration in Pennsylvania or wherever.

    (So, yes, before you say anything… I definitely *escalated* the situation. After driving for 6 hours at between 0 and 15 mph most of the way, yesterday was not a day to Fuck with Me! Keep in mind, other than my original tit-for-tat maneuver at the beginning, I drove completely appropriately according to the traffic conditions of Flatbush Ave… even signaling all of my lane changes and so on. It just so happened that my *correct* driving was also excluding crazy nutjob from passing me.)

    I guess my Obama bumper sticker wasn’t enough for her. 🙂

  2. Hey, THL! Glad all’s well!
    Quick question – I’m afraid my Forum post might take too long for an answer. Is it better for a bldg. to be Tax Class 1 or 4? I applied for reduced tax on a bldg owned by ex-bf. City official phoned this a.m. to discuss it & said it might be better to get a different designation to 1.

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