Red Light (LONG)

[king4aday]

ok...so Im not sure if this story belongs here or not. Technically the woman in question WAS a customer...but the incident didnt happen in the store...well...part of it didn't...so yeah move it if it needs to be

RED LIGHT
So I was pulling into my nice parking spot just steps away from the back door of my store when a lady drove up behind me, got out and started screaming at me:
Me: Hi...its me
RLL: Red Light Lady

RLL: Tell me when did you learn to drive?
Me: Excuse me?
RLL: When did you learn to drive?
Me: uhm...14 years ago....
RLL: Well apparently you never learned ANYTHING in Drivers Education classes?
Me: Whats this about?
RLL: You turned right back at those stoplights...and they were red and thats
iiiiillllleeeeeegaaaal.
Me: actually mam..in Wisconsin thats perfectly legal unless there is a sign saying
you cant.....
RLL: Ive lived in Wisconsin my ENTIRE life, and it has ALWAYS been illegal.
Me: uhm...actually its not....
RLL: Its a FEDERAL law...ALL states must comply...im taking down your license
plate and reporting you to the police...
me: Go ahead...Im going to report you too...for obviously not having the mental
capacity to drive...
RLL: WHAT?! How dare you talk to me like that!
Me: Well mam...you say you have lived in WI your entire life...yet your license
plate says Illinois.....apparently you are completlely confused about where
you are...

The woman scribbled down my license plate number, got in her car and tried to stomp on the gas to leave dramatically...only to have her car slide on the slippery residue left from snowplows plowing ending up doing a complete 360 degree turn.

ITS BACK

about 10 minutes after I opened the store the same woman came into the store saying that she was looking for a camisole with a built in bra...with an underwire...and....wait for it...an OVERWIRE... I informed her that I dont think that such a thing even existed, and that if it did I couldnt imagine that it would be comfortable...Lady started screaming at me saying I didnt know what I was talking about because she saw them online...on our website (we dont manufacture anything like that) and I was only preventing her from purchasing what she wanted because of our "incident" (yes she did the quote thingy with her fingers) in the parking lot, and that I wouldnt know anything about a bra because Im a guy and that she was going to just look around for a bra since we obviously didnt have what she was looking for.

In reply I informed her I would try to help her and asked her what she normally wears...a bra with an underwire? No underwire? padded? no pad? single lined? double lined? does she know what size she wears? does she know the sister sizes for her bra just in case we didnt have her size.....she just looked at me with a clueless look and turned around and left.....

[PepperElf]

sounds more like she was pissed off that she ended up looking stupid.

i mean helloooooo as far as i know *every* state has a "right on red" law, unless otherwise posted.


(either that or she called the cops and got laughed at)

[bigjimaz]

All 50 states as well as the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico have allowed right turns on red since January 1, 1980, unless a sign otherwise prohibits this, such as "No Turn On Red" or a No Right Turn symbol with the words On Red or a red arrow or red light symbol.

[alacazar]

Hmm last i checked all US states as well as most all if not all of Canada allows ight on red as long as there is not a sign or a stoplight there saying otherwise. My guess is the SC lived in an aera with a lot of right hand turning lights or something ( there is one near where I live, cops love waiting at the top of the hill to catch people who dont read the sign below the light that says no turning on red)

[hotelnpa]

Wow...you don't go up to a stranger and start yelling about their driving. There are so many crazies out there. The next person she yells at may have a gun.

I had a similiar incident happen to me several years ago in a busy parking lot at a mall outside of Pittsburgh, PA. I had the right of way at a 4-way stop stop and this woman ran the stop sign. I came within inches of hitting her. At the stoplight, she came up to my car and gave me a verbal lashing for almost hitting her. I was stunned and didn't say anything.

The following week, I saw the same woman buying tickets at the movie theater I was working in at the time. Apparently she remembered the incident and politely gave me the finger as she walked passed me. Classy.

[mattm04]

I have seen a driver take a left on red at the main exit/entrance for our shopping plaza. It wasn't a happy ending for her as the car she almost hit was a marked police SUV. Then two other drivers followed, without paying any attention to the light. The cop got two of the three stopped.

[Nakajo]

Hahaha, I bet she got yelled at by the cops rather than laughed at. I read a story in my paper a year or two back about at the local Burger King a woman called the cops because they forgot her onion rings or something. The cop showed up and arrested HER for making a false 911 call or some similar charge. She was threatening to sue but when she actually was convicted (she tried to fight it, despite witnesses and the recorded call) she dropped the case. I think she got community service.

[siead_lietrathua]

Wow...you don't go up to a stranger and start yelling about their driving. There are so many crazies out there. The next person she yells at may have a gun.

and that's why i love this video
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uWZ7bB7_OEk

teaching rednecks a lesson one day at a time.

[Boozy]

and that's why i love this video
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uWZ7bB7_OEk

All I saw was four violent idiots wasting their time.

Classy.

[Becks]

I'm still perplexed by the request for an "overwire".

[Emrld]

right on red is legal . . .however there is a very important step that some people tend to forget
This is a red light therefore you must come to a total and complete stop. Then when it is clear you may make a right turn.
The only time you are not required to come to a complete stop first is if you have the red light and a green arrow at the same time. I know that sounds really odd but where I live we do have some intersections that involve the service roads for the highway with right turn only lanes . . . all of the lanes in the same direction will have a red light and then they will add the green arrow for the turn lane with the red still lit. The reason they give for this . . . people were running the red light when they didn't see a red on the far lane . . .and to make those turning right to be aware of red light runners from other direction.

[digilight]

Ima guy and damnit if a underwire and a overwire don't sound like a freaken evil torture device....crap on second though you should have pulled one out of your put for the stupid cow.

[CorDarei]

i hope she never sees someone turn left on red from a oneway to another oneway.... (loves doing that every chance he can get, but it's not often)

[d962831]

I'm glad I don't know that lady, you better go scrub all the stupid off because she was leaking all over the place.

[gunsage]

In certain parts of Columbus (and I'm sure other locations as well), you can even turn left on red. Yes, it has to be a one way, you can undilate your eyes now. That's ridiculous, though. I find it quite hilarious that she was actually dumbfounded when you threw 101 questions of bras at her. Come on! You're a woman...you're supposed to know this!