I have a bad temper.

You did great. Don't let those knucleheads come to you.
They have just one braincell more than a cow. Otherwise they $%^ the car full.
You can't fight stupidety.
 
BE CAREFUL!!!!!

240,000 Legal Carry Permits in Ohio,

No telling how many Carry that DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE LAW.

Also no telling how many HOT TEMPERED, LOOSE CANNONS are out there just waiting to go off.
 
Good for you for not giving in to your emotions and possibly walking away w/a criminal record. No body has a good temper and those of us who CCW need to walk away from idiots like this.

I'm now in my middle 60's and handicapped but armed. Unless someone puts me in a position where I am about to be assaulted and have no avenue of escape (I cannot defend myself very well anymore), I walk away. It's difficult, especially given my 30 year LEO background, but again when you carry legally you have an obligation (in most cases) to take the moral high ground.

Again, good for you!
 
+1 on not doing stupid stuff. Im like you and i live in a major metropolitan area. It always takes every part of me to not get out of my car.

A funny story about a guy i used to know. He was close to 7ft tall and about 280lbs, stocky, big dude but he drove an old Honda CRX (the small 2 door, 2 seater. How he fit in it is still a mystery). One time we were lost and driving slow looking for a street in a semi rural area where there were no street names at the intersections. There was some yuppie behind us beeping and flashing his high beams so my friend pulls to the side to let him by but instead the guy pulls over too, behind us, and starts getting out of his car. My friend saw this and did the same. When the other driver saw my friend unfold out of this tiny clown car he quickly turned around, jumped in his car, threw it in reverse and took off. We couldnt stop laughing for 10 minutes after.

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You did well. I would have asked him something like "Why are you upset with me when you ran a stop sign, you moron. Of course, out of sight, would be my hand full of BHP, cocked and locked. But then, if he made me slam on the brakes like that, I would have been Mr. middle finger.
 
Thirty five years ago I would have pulled him out the vent window (that shows how old I am)and beat him. I would not dare do that today. It just easier to call the police and report road rage.
 
Controlling one's temper takes willpower and practice. One thing that always got my goat was when someone would do something stupid to endanger my wife and kids. Usually those people are impaired. You get props for dealing with the situation like a responsible adult.
 
I too have a temper, which does seem to have mellowed over time. Years ago, on a freeway, I was passed by some hooligans in a T-top Trans Am that threw out a lit firecracker which detonated seemingly inches from my left ear. During this era, one of my passions was Saturday night figure eight racing, so I know a thing or two about car control. I quickly caught up to the hooligans and performed a perfect Pitt maneuver (before, I think, it ever had a name) on the Pontiac and left them mewling with wet pants backwards in the median. Seemed satisfying at the time, though now I cringe at everything that could have gone wrong with that....thank heavens for guardian angels.
 
A wise man once told me "never get into a pissing contest with a skunk". Lots of crazies out there.
 
I used to be a hothead too, but my time in the Army and a tour overseas, as well as recently getting married have calmed me down a lot. I don't get as worked up as I used to. It's not worth it. I'm not going to ruin my day or waste my time fighting some scummer.

After the things I've been through I'm not going to let some dirty dirt with an IQ of 3 force me into having an assault and battery charge on my record, or worse, getting into a roadside shootout.

If you fight everyone who angers you, you're going to be fighting 3 times a day........there are mentally ill people out there, people with nothing to lose, drunks, etc. This guy may have been off his meds, who knows. You don't know who you're dealing with.

Like was said, nothing ticks someone off more than smiling and waving when they are irate and flipping you off.......or just ignoring them.

This is also the reason I have a CC permit. There are people out there just looking for a fight, and sometimes you're the one randomly selected.

Even the toughest people can't win all the time, there are a lot of people with short fuses who got baited into fights and lost........sometimes getting put 6 feet under. I have read too many stories of people who get into road rage incidents, pull off to the side of the road to "have it out" and then it ends with shots being fired and an ordinary guy, maybe a father, is dead because he let his temper take control and the bad guy got the drop on him.
 
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crazykg85 said:
...Luckily, I did not, although it would have been freaking hysterical if I had.

...as a 26 year old married father of a 5 month old boy, I did not do anything stupid and let my emotions get the best of me.
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It wouldn't have been "hysterical," but you will reach the age when you understand that. There is nothing funny about being forced to deal with an idiot through no fault of your own. At 26, and with a son who is already watching you, and who will be depending on you for guidance, your "emotional" days are over. Remember, the word temper is just a short-cut for saying "out of control."

Doug M.'s idea is the best one. If it is worth doing, let the cavalry handle it. Of course without witnesses, it is your word against his. Pointless. Whatever you do, don't get yourself killed by an idiot. Idiots have guns, too. Your son needs you.
 
A few years back, I was going home on the expressway when this guy in a truck pulls up along side of me and starts cussing at me with hand jester etc. I was going the speed limit in the slow lane and couldn't figure out way he was so upset with me. Anyway I got off at my exist and this guy is still following me. I make a few turn in and around the block and I now know that this guy means business. What he didn't know was that I was on the city's police board, so I called dispatch and requested two cars to come to my subdivision one to block the entrance the other to pull him over. There is only one way in or out of our subdivision so I knew we get him. Turns out he thinks I was going to slow and became upset. When all said and done, we had a DWI 3rd offense, failure to appear, and then road rage charges. I don't think he was going to get out jail any time soon. Never did ask what happen to him either.
 
A number of years back, Clint Smith told my Thunder Ranch class something I will always remember ...

"It's not worth getting killed over a middle finger."
 
Old cop said:
Good for you for not giving in to your emotions and possibly walking away w/a criminal record. No body has a good temper and those of us who CCW need to walk away from idiots like this.

I'm now in my middle 60's and handicapped but armed. Unless someone puts me in a position where I am about to be assaulted and have no avenue of escape (I cannot defend myself very well anymore), I walk away. It's difficult, especially given my 30 year LEO background, but again when you carry legally you have an obligation (in most cases) to take the moral high ground.

Again, good for you!
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Excellent advice. I've read that three of the key components of self defense are to always attempt to avoid, deter, or de-escalate potentially violent encounters if possible.

We all have egos, and we all hate walking away from people like that, but it's all part of being a responsible CCW'er, not escalating an encounter to the point where the gun needs to come out if we can at all help it.
 
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