So I’m walking to an evening class at a local college, it’s dark. There’s a bend just before the junction and as I’m walking across a car comes round way too fast. I had to step back to avoid being hit. I was wearing gloves and as it went past I hit it, no idea why, just instinct and anger.

I carry on walking and I see the driver has pulled over a bit down the road, I was expecting a “sorry are you ok” but she instead shouted “did you just hit my car?”. That set me off, shouting at her that she almost fucking ran me over. Then she says “you don’t have to use that kind of language”, the fucking nerve.

Gave up and just walked off. Wish I’d have smashed the wing mirror or keyed the car or something.

Has anyone else almost been run over and how do you deal with the anger of it?

  • jabathekekEnglish
    18·
    1 day ago

    I stare at them and yell “Fuck you”.

    In that situation I would have yelled “You murderous piece of fucking shit. Stop driving a car. Fuck you.”

    I really don’t care for people that think being calm in situations like this is the right choice. You almost fucking died, or worse, had to spend the rest of your life in a wheel chair while the driver has their wages garnished to pay for it; also for the rest of their lives. Swearing at them and cussing them out is the only way to get through to the bastards, if you’re lucky. Otherwise they’ll just forget that they almost killed someone a few minutes later.

          • BurstarEnglish
            3·
            15 hours ago

            Truth is a defence for slander/libel. Her coming that close to killing a pedestrian, and being so demonstrably… ‘unconcerned’ about it would be the obvious rebuttal. Also, it being an excited utterance under stress would strain the claim that any reasonable person would believe the statement was factual, and hence, isn’t slanderous.

          • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
            7·
            1 day ago

            Lol there’s no law saying you can’t describe someone a threatening. Murderous just means highly threatening, edit SPEAKING TO THEM. saying it in print or elsewhere is different.

            Murderous doesn’t mean you have a murdering track record, it means your present behavior is dangerously violent.

            Some definition text:

            Defamation is the act of sharing false information that harms someone’s reputation: Definition Defamation is the act of communicating false statements about a person that harm their reputation or prevent others from associating with them. Types Defamation includes libel and slander: Libel: Written or broadcast defamation Slander: Spoken defamation

            So describing someone who is in your company as threatening is not like libel or slander.

          • JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            4·
            1 day ago

            Defimation requires material damages, it would also be a hearsay argument and probably fails in places with anti-SLAPP laws.