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I recieved the one finger salute.

| January 12th, 2008

It happened yesterday on the way to Wal-Mart with virtually no warning. I did hear a faint honk from behind, but in a 15 passenger van with 6 teenage girls chatting away and a 1-month-old getting her two cents in it can be kind of hard to hear.

Anyway, the next thing I know a guy with a gotee pulls up and locks eyes with me. Then it happened. He lifted his fist and raised the flag . . . flew the bird . . . gave me the 1 finger salute.  I was just hoping he wasn’t going to lower the flag and decide to use his fist for other things, like breaking my face.

I’m not sure what I did. Maybe I unknowingly cut him off. Or maybe he’s not cool with big vans full of pregnant teens. At any rate, I’m OK in case you were worried about me.

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9 Responses to “I recieved the one finger salute.”

  1. January 12th, 2008 at 9:19 PM Cindy Beall Says:

    That was kinda funny. Sorry your life was in jeopardy but it made for a great blog post :)

  2. January 13th, 2008 at 12:59 AM Leann Says:

    In 2006 at Christmas time, this girl in a subcompact cut me and the hubs off and then proceeded to give US the one-finger salute. Nice. Not to mention classy.

  3. January 13th, 2008 at 1:50 AM ryan Says:

    Leann » Now that’s the holiday spirit! Did she have a gotee?

  4. January 13th, 2008 at 3:15 AM Leann Says:

    Haha–I didn’t see since she was the one who cut us off. All I could see was the back of her oh-so-lovely flip off. :) I even posted about it on my blog that day and I think my title was “‘Tis the Season!”

  5. January 13th, 2008 at 8:55 AM ctown Says:

    the other day i busted out the old video camera to get some sweet footage of some of my Marine buddies living the dream. as i panned across the room one of my dear friends is flying the finger (totally ruining the shot.) we then broke into a ten minute discussion of how in the Marine Corps the bird is like saying “hey, your my friend, and i like you.” maybe the guy you saw was trying to be friendly as well.

  6. January 14th, 2008 at 3:20 AM ryan Says:

    That’s amazing. The marine culture uses this sign as a way to say hello. That reminds me of the whole ‘bad word’ deal. It all depends on context and culture.

    This guy could’ve been a marine. His biceps were rather large. Not as large as yours of course, but large nonetheless.

  7. January 14th, 2008 at 4:27 PM Susan Says:

    I think Walmart makes people hostile especially their parking lots. Maybe he knew you were going there and wanted to go ahead and fly his flag. I am sure I have thought about flying my flag more than once in the past 10 years of driving in the city.

  8. January 14th, 2008 at 8:51 PM ryan Says:

    Susan » I would have to agree that Wal-Mart parking lots are a bit hostile. Kind of like what Legend must have felt when the sun went down on New York.

  9. January 14th, 2008 at 9:46 PM Susan Says:

    Exactly. Haha

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