My night (a little funny)

StangGT1995 said:

Last time that happened to me, I was going about 15 in a 25. I just pushed the clutch in, brought the revs up, and dry hopped it a little. She STFU in a hurry then!

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I remember years ago, sometime in my early-20's being a passenger in my buddies El Camino (yeah, I know). It had super low gearing and he was running around in 1st gear to show me how the engine sounded. Not speeding at all mind you, just running around in 1st, burping the throttle every once and a while.

Just as we were about to round the corner to my street, some old man (typical Bermuda shorts, sock and sandals in his mid-70's) came flying out of his driveway shaking a pipe wrench at us. He jumps in front of my friends car almost completely out of breath and say's "just what do you think you're doing?" My friend replied with "minding my own business, how about you?" the old man then says "This is a residential area and I don't like the way you're driving....if I see you do it again, I'm going to rearrange both you and your windshield!"

My friend (not one to take **** at 6' 4" and 230lbs) then very slowly and calmly turns off his ignition, removes his seatbelt and in a very slow, controlled voice says to the guy "If you don't loosen your grip on that pipe wrench right now and turn around and walk back into your house, I’m going to kill you.....likely by reaching through this window and snapping your neck!" The guy with a shocked expression stares at him for a second and then leaves in a huff. I then say to my friend...."kinda harsh, no?" and he just said.....you gotta put these old *******s in their place! You and I both know were weren't doing anything wrong, but these old ****ers are always looking for something to bitch at and for some reason think we (the younger generation) seem to owe them something!"

Needless to say, about an hour and a half later, I had the police show up in my back yard with some questions for my buddy. He explained to the officers how the man was wielding a pipe wrench when he spoke to us (a fact the guy conveniently left out when he made the complaint) and that he felt threatened by him and only responded in kind. They basically said to ignore the old coot and make sure to keep his speed down in the neighbourhood from then on. In any case, it was still pretty embarrassing having the whole street staring down at your house as you're being questioned by the police.