Driving Pet Peeves! - Bilge

Z ZebraTiki Member Enchanted Bay Area, CA Joined: Aug 01, 2004 Posts: 530	Z ZebraTiki Posted posted on Thu, Apr 21, 2005 8:41 PM On 2005-04-21 13:44, MachTiki wrote: It never fails... You wash your car and the very next day the ass 2 car lengths in front of you on the freeway decides that their windshield is dirty so they spray you (and everyone behind you) with washer fluid. Why can't they do that when no one is behind them or when they're at a stop? Arrrg. That happened to me and my one of my ex bosses at a stop light. We were in his car at a left turn stoplight with one car ahead of us. I was driving, my boss was in the passenger seat, and the sunroof was open. We get liberally sprayed with windsheild wiper fluid from the car in front of us that seemed to have a misting and fogging device as well as windsheild sprayer installed. The fluid was going mostly over his roof towards us, not at all adjusted to his windsheild, and it was a Mercedes! Before I know it, my boss is out of his seatbelt, and wedged himself out through the sunroof, standing on the seat and screaming the longest, most crushingly profane string of obscenities at the guy in front of us. The guy gets out, and it turns out to be a sales rep that we just placed a $10,000. order with an hour before. The sales rep apologizes once he realizes who is screaming at him, and I have to hear a lecture from Mr. Sunroof Potty Mouth about the incident all the way back to the office, a quick 2 1/2 hours to go 40 miles away. I found out more about obscenities and the heartache of water spots on a black car than I can ever use in this lifetime. The next day, my boss cancelled the purchase order with that rep, and got a new rep assigned to our very lucrative account. Every time I'd see that rep at a show, he'd try to corner me and ask, "It's about that windsheild thing isn't it?"

On 2005-04-21 13:44, MachTiki wrote:
It never fails... You wash your car and the very next day the ass 2 car lengths in front of you on the freeway decides that their windshield is dirty so they spray you (and everyone behind you) with washer fluid. Why can't they do that when no one is behind them or when they're at a stop? Arrrg.

That happened to me and my one of my ex bosses at a stop light. We were in his car at a left turn stoplight with one car ahead of us. I was driving, my boss was in the passenger seat, and the sunroof was open. We get liberally sprayed with windsheild wiper fluid from the car in front of us that seemed to have a misting and fogging device as well as windsheild sprayer installed. The fluid was going mostly over his roof towards us, not at all adjusted to his windsheild, and it was a Mercedes! Before I know it, my boss is out of his seatbelt, and wedged himself out through the sunroof, standing on the seat and screaming the longest, most crushingly profane string of obscenities at the guy in front of us. The guy gets out, and it turns out to be a sales rep that we just placed a $10,000. order with an hour before. The sales rep apologizes once he realizes who is screaming at him, and I have to hear a lecture from Mr. Sunroof Potty Mouth about the incident all the way back to the office, a quick 2 1/2 hours to go 40 miles away. I found out more about obscenities and the heartache of water spots on a black car than I can ever use in this lifetime. The next day, my boss cancelled the purchase order with that rep, and got a new rep assigned to our very lucrative account. Every time I'd see that rep at a show, he'd try to corner me and ask, "It's about that windsheild thing isn't it?"

Post #154300 by ZebraTiki on Thu, Apr 21, 2005 8:41 PM