Got in an argument in the gas station parking lot tonight.

[Not_A_Llama]

...some punk a$$ kid and his friends cut me off then began to tell me how to drive when they drove by. So i was already pissed.

Don't transfer emotion.

[soco11]

Just keep repeating to yourself: An armed society is a polite society.

[High Altitude]

Building 7

[theGinsue]

True. Stupid is also a self-correcting problem.

Eventually, but (sadly) the rest of us have to put up with them in the mean time. Ugh!

[theGinsue]

Good thing things didn't escalate. I tend to just go on about my own these days as I prefer to be left alone and I know how fast things can go to the next level over petty shit.

I've got a dear friend (and co-worker) who had to surrender her CCW permit this Spring and is going to court soon over multiple felony counts for something that didn't happen at all like the case against her implies - all at a gas station. The "victim" at the time was the husband of a supposedly) off-duty female officer - afterwards, in the police report, it was the father of this woman (the father was never seen at the scene by the suspect (my friend). The whole deal is fishy but my friend is facing some serious stuff (10+ years in prison) because the official victim" is an "at risk adult".

Things can excalate very quickly - even AFTER you've left the story can change enough to get you landed in jail.