About 15 years ago I was working on a job site when a guy walked over to me and asked if I could help him. He had an older car, and the wheel studs had broken on one wheel, causing it to come off.
It was rush hour, on a busy two lane road. There were very narrow shoulders, and relatively deep ditches on both sides, but he had gotten lucky and had been able to pull into a concrete drive, so he was well off the road.
So, I go over to help the guy. The plan was to take one stud of each of the other tires and at least get it mobile sop he could get home. We were in the process of doing this when the home owner drive in. He simply drove around the guys car, and pulled into this garage....
The next thing we know the guy was back outside ranting, raving, cursing, and raising holy he-double at, and about the man being in his drive. He kept on with something about his wife would be home soon, and that the car would be her way. It's not like she couldn't go around it just as he did. Further he continued his tirade by saying he had already called the cops. He soon turned his attention to me. Given that I am 6'1" plus, and tend to not deal well with idiots, and he was maybe 5'6" and definitely being an idiot, I didn't stand for his crap and told him exactly what I thought of him and his tirade.
Shortly after that the cops showed up. We had maybe 20 minutes left to be done with what needed to be done, and told him that. Even so, the cop made the guy move his car out of the drive, and onto the side of a busy road to work on it. I couldn't believe that the cop was that big of an idiot to put us in a position like that just because some guy was raising hell, for no reason, about a car broken down on his property.
With the car on the side of the road, it now took us nearly an hour to get it fixed because we had to contend with trying to jack it up with it sitting in a ditch. Finally, get got done and were standing there talking about the whole incident for a minute.....when the guys wife finally got home.
Had we been left alone to do it in the drive, we'd have been long gone before she got home. Found out later that the homeowner was some self important, local politician, who thought he was better than anyone else. I can only guess that's the reason the deputy submitted to his stupid ranting desires like he did. I almost called the sheriffs office to file a complaint against the guy for putting a motorist at risk for forcing the man to put his car in traffic and in a ditch, but I held off.
In reality what I wanted to do was to throw a few handfuls of roofing nails in/on the guys lawn, and drive and see how he felt broken down on the side of the road with a flat. Fortunately I don't always do the things I would like to do.....LOL....and just pray that karma will eventually catch up with him.
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