Hello Mopo - and thanks again for all the support of my recent walk for
Diabeters
it was all funded by you 280.00 and thats almost 3 times what I had
hoped possible so ,
you have made a difference in countless peopels lives and im very proud
of your spirits..
so with that,,, hers a Very funny thing that happened yesterday.. TRUE
story... first some background//// when I was younger I was always
getting in trouble in school and all as I was a son of a single mom and
was considered s rebel... well and I was , as I would ask questions and
questio n authority... I wanted to be a musician at liek age 7-8 so I
was not interested in algebra or " spelling" :) - anyways I would get
myself in some jams because I was not in the cliches in school.. One
thing that Bugged me was wehen these Bullies would pick on wek kids ..
I think because whenI was little I was abused and my mom was by a
abusive man.. so I would get enraged .. and stike at the bullies... It
was my trigger...
One time a gang forced me to fight one of the gang I didnt want to fight
but they said if i didnt they would kick my ass... sooo.. I fought like
hel and beat the crap out of the kid.. then I thought they would all
gang up,, But amazing they left me alone// so over years when my
buttons got pushed I would go into a alpacino type rage or Deniro..
from being mellow If people proked me..
Well yesterday I was at the potoffice and was wearing my " walk for
diabeters shirt..and feeling pretty good about people and life and hat
there was hope... wen I was backing out of a space and a Guy refused to
pull forward or backward... he ginally did as I was edgeing toward him
like Move out of teh way.. so he gets out and starts calling names and
say " you got a Problem" and he was like 45 yrs old... so I try to open
my pasenger window to comment back and coulnt remember how to open the
window... so I now get out of the car ....
Now hes getting really pissed as he sees it as a confrontation.. so h
provokes me more and says " what where you gonna do hit me?? and then
calls names that normally would make anyone want to get physical.... NOw
I admit at this point my blood and adrenlin was thinking.. attack and
destroy this idiot........ but amazingly I was still being cool.. I said
" you dont need to get Lippy with me Budddy" and he says this..."" Nice
Car!! why dont You buy ameraican you asshole" - ( i drive a Toyota
matrix) then says wait here ... after I mail this package we will sttle
this...!! Now meanwhile some Old guy was trying to get out of a
space and im blocking him.... and so i thought.... Im getting to old for
this,,, even if I beat the crap out of him Ill be sore and probably
injur me... he might sue me if I hurt him or if he knocks my teeth out
it will take months to recover... heck my table saw cut took months on a
finger.... so I thought NOPE I am going to do something positive and so
I went home and tryed to help a Fod pantry get donation sto help
starving people....
But I admit there was a boiling rage like a volcano ready to erupt and
it was liek a test
of my spirit ... because we think that revenge or conquest makes us a
victor when really it defeats us as we do nothing to help the others,,,
I relized that this man may have been in divorce lost his job, home or
worse and he saw some guy backing out as taking his last bit of dignity
away by forceing him to move... so he struck out.... and me... I just
couldnt open the window .. was trying to see what bugged him , but when
he insulted me and my car I was ready to pop his head off!!!... If I
can anymore I cant remeber when I even came close
To me I succeeded as I didnt succumb to the anger.... so I managed it..
a Milestone in my life..
road rage sucks and it seems like all ages auccumb to it as its a
release of pent up anger and feeling like they have no control in
anything... the issue was ME not him... and once I looked at me I see I
need to be more diplomatic and stop my anger from even considering violence
as all that does is create more violence.. I hope I can remember this in
the next parking LOT! next time it may be a 95 year od Granny with a
lisence and bad attitude....
Maybe Greg Douglass Granny.....
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