I had a similar road rage incident a few weeks ago, over getting cut off in a 5mph parking lot. The weird thing about it was, the driver who got out of the truck was a 5 foot tall woman. She pounded on my car, pounded on my chest, and then took a swipe at me at the face & my glasses flew.
At that point it was felony assault, I quickly wrestled her to the ground (been watching too many UFC bouts lately) and promptly said, “You’re under arrest, for assault”. I started to quote her rights, “you have the right to remain silent, you have the right...”
She interrupted and asked if I was a police man. Nope, this is a citizen’s arrest. That was where I made my first mistake. I should have just kept telling her the rights.
Then I realized she’d be lying about the whole episode, so I pulled out my cell phone and tried to work the camera. I couldn’t get it to work.
A man came up from behind and said, “we should handle this like adults”. I said, “I AM handling this like an adult, I’m placing her under arrest.” Then he came around to my front and said that if I follow through with this, there would be trouble.
It didn’t make sense that a small woman would be so rage filled, so I figured he was her second, and their plan was to have her engage me while he smashed me from behind. I probably spooked him with my reaction. I figured the best course of action was to just let her go. So I did.
She got into her truck & left. To my surprise, Mr. Number 2 did not get into the truck with her. He was just a guy who came upon a man sitting on top of a woman in the middle of a parking lot at night.
After she left, I tried to find my glasses. Another man approached me from between 2 cars saying that he’d seen the whole thing and my first thought was, “great, there was 3 of them ready to jump me.” But he said that everything I did was the right thing.
My response was, “but those were my glasses! Where are they?” Just then, a car drove over my glasses.
That incident cost me $240 for glasses, plus a smart phone to upgrade my crappy old camera that didn’t do what I thought it would do. And the first thing I looked at with the smart phone was the ease of use of the camera and how long will it record? Smart phones these days are a Personal Urban Survival Utility.
True or not, this is an interesting story.
You are a FANTASTIC writer.
Do ten or twenty more of these stories and you’ve got a book. This was super short for a short story but all the elements of a great story are there. I love brevity.
This was really good. I’m a short story lover, and this is right up there.
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Buy a cheap smart phone so you can videograph while on your main phone. I have a Nokia 520 as my spare. It has no sim card.