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Re: Uncontrolled temper

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From: Tom
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 13:45
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"Josip Kolar" <josip96@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Today, Saturday 2.11.2002, happened something very odd to me.
> It was a sunny afternoon in Mirrabooka, at about 16:30.
> I drove from Mirrabooka Square onto Yirrigan Drive towards Alexander
Drive,
> and was going to turn right into Dianella Drive slowing down gradually to
20
> km/h and even slower, although there was green right arrow. Behind me was
a
> police car tooting as a hooligan as I stopped for a second or two before
> continuing to drive. Meanwhile, my daughter, not knowing who is behind us
> and, at the same time worrying about my sudden change of colour, shoved
the
> finger through the window to the driver behind - which this one behind
could
> not bear.
> Policeman pulled me over and, after I stopped after next intersection,
came
> to my car and started in aggressive manner: "I have to tell you something,
> and after I shall deal with you (i.e. my daughter, who held infant on her
> lap}..." I tried to take breath and he, probably thought that I want to
say
> something, shouted: Don't interrupt me!" First of all, he blasted me for
> stopping at the green light, saying that some less experienced driver
might
> slam into me and thus cause an accident
> In his furry he didn't realise that I was most terribly sick and, at the
> green light I stopped because I was not sure if I see the picture right or
> not; that's why I stoped in the first place. I am diabetic and this is not
> the first time that I stop on green light; people tooted sometimes, but
> never ever so impatiently like this time.
> Then he started to abuse me that he stopped me last week, that he is sure
of
> it, that he knows my face... Did I drunk anything lately, and where I go.
I
> thought, man I am sick, but you are either high or desperate. It was a
> pathetic sight seeing him shouting at the top of his voice: "I AM a
> policeman!"
> After he put yellow sticker for insufficient thread on some of the wheels,
> and said that he is only cautioning me for the stopping on the green
light,
> and the rest of the fine I will get in the mail.
> When he disappeared I wanted to put two fingers up in his honour, but was
> still too sick.
> What one should do in situations of spells: to stop or continue to drive?
> Hopefully this one is an exception rather than a rule.
>
Its best you not drive if you are prone to spells, you might have or cause
an accident that kills or injures someone else.

Tom
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