Do you ever feel like Godzilla or King Kong when driving your truck?

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  1. A Bug

    A Bug Heavy Load Member

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    There was this annoying Smart Car in front of me that kept slowing down and speeding up on a two lane highway heading towards San Antonio today. I just wanted to flick the thing off the road.

    I would not call it road rage, but I have been having these strange feelings lately. When I am driving behind a store along the truck route I sometimes see cars back there. A lot of times they cannot get around me and have to turn around. Yes I know it is wrong but for some reason I get a feeling of satisfaction from that.
     
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  3. Mudguppy

    Mudguppy Degenerate Immoralist

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    Well, this thread has potential...
     
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  4. GenericUserName

    GenericUserName Road Train Member

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    No but sometimes i feel like a massive cyborg. lol
     
  5. Hurst

    Hurst Registered Member

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    If you let everything that bothers you build up it will become a point of stress and tension. You cant let what bothers you effect your responsibility behind the wheel. You are and will be held accountable to a higher standard then they are. Remember,.. you are the professional. They are just commuters with little to no regard for you, your size, any dangers, or any clue.

    I feel the same as you at times. I fantasize about just crashing into vehicles that annoy me. Having special powers to make their tires blow out sending them to the shoulder and out of my way. Seeing people who flick cigarette butts and fantasizing about 10,000 butts coming back in their window and singing everything inside. I have many demented thoughts while going down the road.

    When I get home I use video games like GTA4, Battlefield4 and do things in those games that I wish I could do in real life. I also have a drag car and my wife's car is set up for road and track and I hit the tracks we have here to get rid of the stress that builds up. Spending a day at Sebring, Bradenton or O-Town gives me instant gratification.

    Careful to separate fantasy from reality.


    Hurst
     
  6. ShortBusKid

    ShortBusKid Heavy Load Member

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    Seek help.

    Although there is something about those Smart Cars that annoys the crap outta me too. And I laugh almost everytime I see one.
     
  7. CargoWahgo

    CargoWahgo Road Train Member

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    I always wanted something bigger.
    Regular 53 foot dry van is tiny.

    I want two of em...like those silly Canadians...
    And twice the pay.
     
  8. stayinback

    stayinback Road Train Member

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    evertime I hear "King Kong" the only thing that I think of is cheech telling Tommy Chong- "god-#### King kong": when chong broke the security bars over the wiundow in "Cheech and Chongs Next Movie"
     
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  9. bigdogpile

    bigdogpile Road Train Member

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    If I could palm a hot chick by the butt while hanging from the antenna of a 110 story high rise with fighter jets fire on me, then yea !! King Kong !!
     
  10. cnsper

    cnsper Road Train Member

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    Give them a break, it takes a lot of battery power to stay ahead of you. They were slowing down to recharge them.
     
  11. Caterpillar Cowboy

    Caterpillar Cowboy Heavy Load Member

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    Never want to run another car over. That would cost too much money. I like to see myself more like Burt Reynolds or Jerry Reed than a big old monster.
     
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