Getting a little OT but that reminds me of a crazy guy I worked with long ago. He’s a Russian guy from South Africa. We’ll call him Ivan (not his real name). Similar story. Kinda. So we had to travel to Cincinnati from Ft Wayne for a meeting. In those days such things were ties and sport coat. Ivan liked the finer things so he paid to upgrade the rental car to luxury class.
So we attended the meeting and headed back up I-75. Ivan has a lead foot and is quite impatient. We came up on two cars taking up both lanes side by side going the same speed...slow. One was a Camaro, in the passing lane. The other was a Yugo (that it was still on the road gives you an idea of the time period) in the right lane. A few moments of observation told us the youths in the Camaro were harassing the Yugo driver.
Obviously the Yugo can only go so fast. So Ivan decided to let the Camaro dudes know that he wasn’t happy. So he tailgated them. Still didn’t budge. So that pissed him off. Growing more impatient, he finally said something like I’ll take care if this. He swerved over as he accelerated in between lanes, to pass in between both cars.
Now, Ivan liked his fedora hats, and being dressed in suit and tie, driving in a luxury car with three other dudes dressed in suits, may have made Ivan look a little like a gangster. And he sold it as he drove between the cars, looked over at the dudes in the Camaro as he passed, pointed at them with his right hand shaping his fingers to mimic a gun, and then dropped his thumb as if pulling the trigger. We passed maybe a foot away from them. It was really close. The look on their faces was priceless. They may have **** themselves.
I think the Camaro driver locked his breaks up because the Camaro dropped behind us very quickly. I looked over at the Yugo driver as we passed him, and he was laughing his ass off.
Ivan is a hothead. He was a road rager for sure. I googled him a few years ago just to see if he’d ever been locked up for road raging. Nope. He was in prison for murdering his wife!
