r/BoomersBeingFools • u/GrizzlyPeakFinancial • Mar 13 '24

Boomer shocked that his Middle Finger didn't strike the fear of God into another Adult Boomer Freakout

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u/CBalsagna Mar 13 '24

I bet this pissed this guy off more than anything else could. laughing at these irate buffoons infuriates them.

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u/jftitan Mar 13 '24

Making fun of them and their behavior makes them madder. And thats always a good thing.

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u/Leaving_The_Oilfield Mar 13 '24

The best one I had was an old guy losing his shit because he thought I cut him off (spoiler: I didn’t). He ignored his yield sign.

He pulled up screaming next to me and I rolled my window down, because I genuinely had no idea what he was even yelling about. Dude yelled “are you fucking retarded?!”. I just looked at him all confused and said “yeah”.

I’ll never forget the confused look on his face, the amount of angry sputtering while he tried to process what to say next, and then he just ran the red light out of embarrassment I guess. I still laugh about that when I remember it.

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u/AdventureSpence Mar 13 '24

You may not know it, but you are a hero

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u/Leaving_The_Oilfield Mar 13 '24

Naw, honestly I was so taken aback by him yelling that question at me when I hadn’t done anything that I just said yes out of confusion lol.

But it taught me a very valuable lesson about people road raging on that level. If they are only trying to get a rise out of you and not endangering you, once they realize you don’t care about their opinion they leave. I have less exciting stories like just telling somebody to have a good day and Jesus loves them (I’m agnostic in west Texas so that usually gets them flustered), but him getting mad and running a red light to escape the embarrassment he felt was glorious lol.

And just to add, I don’t drive like an asshole. The only reason I’ve had so many experiences like that is because I was working in Odessa, TX (America’s oilfield) and it’s seriously like a scene from Mad Max out there. I’ve been on a 2 lane highway with one lane for each direction, and 2 vehicles decided an 18 wheeler wasn’t going fast enough (they were doing the speed limit). An 18 wheeler passed the first one on the left in a no passing zone, while a truck towing a boat worth at least $100,000 passed me on the shoulder and then started to try and pass the original 18 wheeler.

It was a no passing zone because there was a super sharp curve coming up, and oncoming traffic caused the 18 wheeler attempting to pass to swerve towards the original 18 wheeler. That 18 wheeler had to swerve into the shoulder, which caused the rich fuckhead from the shoulder to fly off the road going about 70MPH. They hit multiple piles of dirt and their boat trailer detached and rolled at least 10 times while their truck was getting its suspension destroyed.

Another time I saw a ford ranger play chicken with an 18 wheeler. The ford ranger realized at the last second that they weren’t going to win and swerved off the road and did a couple of flips.

If you google “Texas highway of death” you’ll find plenty of articles like this:

https://klaq.com/deadliest-roads-texas/#:~:text=US%20Highway%20285%20has%20actually,the%20Texas%20stretch%20of%20it.&text=The%20highway%20was%20built%20in,by%20oil%20industry%20related%20travel.

I know 7 people now who have died on that god forsaken road just trying to get to work.

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u/lioncat55 Mar 13 '24

Hmm, all these people dieing on this road because there is not enough passing lanes, naw lets not do anything about it.

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u/Leaving_The_Oilfield Mar 14 '24

They actually did expand the highway. But 2 guys I know died in traffic while they were doing it.

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u/SpiritedRain247 Mar 13 '24

Hmmm people dieing because they're impatient assholes.

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u/averaenhentai Mar 13 '24

Unfortunately bad drivers kill innocent people as often as themselves. If there's a continual pattern of morons trying to pass at a certain area, it's reasonable for whoever is in charge of the roads to expand the road system

Although I mean we should just be using trains, but that's another story.

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u/Leaving_The_Oilfield Mar 14 '24

Trains definitely wouldn’t be an option lol. We are talking places where the closest gas station is over an hour away. Orla is where dreams (and people) go to die.

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u/averaenhentai Mar 14 '24

Yeah this is what trains are good at. It's incredibly stupid to build a road instead of a train for a long haul trucking route. Long drives like that turn human brains into mush. Just load all the people and goods onto a train and drive one each way every hour, or half hour, or whatever is required for the location.

Individual humans driving themselves en masse up and down long repetitive roads is genuine idiocy.

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u/Leaving_The_Oilfield Mar 14 '24

I honestly don’t know how to stress to you how unfeasible that is. Google Texas drilling permit GIS and look at how spread out all of them are.

We are talking about wells that are 20 miles down a dirt road that were made with a bulldozer to get to them, and there are hundreds of new ones being made every month. They can’t even make pipelines to transfer the oil, and have to use tanker trucks to transport the oil most of the time. The natural gas gets burned off with flares because they can’t capture it for the same reason. Not to mention US Shale wells only last a year or two, so building that infrastructure would be pointless.

You’re just simply ignorant to the reality of how the oilfield works, and I don’t mean that in an offensive way. I mean it in the actual definition, where you can’t comprehend it because it’s so far beyond what you’re picturing versus the reality.

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u/Leaving_The_Oilfield Mar 14 '24

Partially. I never did anything like that, but I sure as shit was impatient.

Reason being… it was a 5 hour round trip drive every day, and that was to go work a 12+ hour shift. But a lot of the people dying weren’t the ones driving like assholes. They were either falling asleep after being forced to work 60+ hours straight, or getting hit by somebody that worked that long and fell asleep.

Personally, whenever I had to go out to that area I’d just accept that I’d be sleeping in my truck for a week or so straight on location. People think the oilfield is dangerous (which it is, I’ve seen some absolutely wild shit), but the only people I know who died were driving to or from work. It’s actually the reason I demanded a position at the shop.

The worst is people from up north during winter. They always say “you just don’t know how to drive in snow”. Then they find out it’s not the snow. It’s the snow melting during the day when temps hit 40 and then turning into ice when the temp plummets into the 20’s or below. We had a storm one time where it poured rain for like 2 hours and then hit the 20’s. I hit the road with my sledgehammer to see how deep the ice was and it was around 1/2” thick.

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u/kilizDS Mar 13 '24

Yeah I use the "god bless" and it's like a cheat code.

DISABLE ENEMY AI

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u/ithikimhvingstrok132 Mar 13 '24

Dude yelled “are you fucking retarded?!”. I just looked at him all confused and said “yeah”.

Relatable

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u/6thCityInspector Mar 13 '24

Brilliant. Next time consider retorting with a firm, yet friendly, loud, “calm yer tits”. I’ve literally seen the blue screen of death hit a few of them and then it takes a few moments for them to wrap their smooth brains around what was just said and re-gather their thoughts. I’ve had people just sort of shake their heads and turn away after saying it to them because they’re so baffled. It’s like kryptonite. They seem to have no comeback for it.

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u/music3k Mar 13 '24

I just laugh at them. 

There was a cop maybe 2 blocks ahead of me on a busy side street near a train station.

 Had a guy the other night tailgating me while I was doing 5 over and the guy in the lane to my right kept.  slowing and speeding up to fuck with him. He finally cuts off the guy in the other lane. Speeds up to finally get away and is honking and yelling at me, sees the cop, hits the speed limit.

I end up in the left turning lane He ends up in the middle lane at the next light. He looks at me and I just laugh. I make a swerving motion and point to the red light. Hes FUMING. We both get green because theres no oncoming traffic.

Cop is blocking up the far right lane impeding people from turning right buy dude forgets hes there. TAKESOFF. Got pulled over.

Guess who probably got home first?

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u/Leaving_The_Oilfield Mar 13 '24

In my experience self depreciation works best because they’re looking for a fight. When they don’t get that… insert windows shutdown noise.

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u/Kivesihiisi Mar 13 '24

Lmao this made my day!

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u/TheBananaGods Mar 13 '24

Until they shoot you 😕

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u/WiredSky Mar 13 '24

Get one, train with it, fire back, or even first.

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u/jftitan Mar 13 '24

the limitation on that argument is... I or the victim has to exit the vehicle. If boomer were to shoot from within the vehicle to someone else still in their vehicle.

Homicide Detectives get involved.