hitchiker…
March 25, 2008 by sparklematrix
Last night while driving home in the dark, I experienced a run in (almost literally) with a bipedal Lesser-Spotted Runt. Negotiating my way down a windy country lane a bloke suddenly appeared in my headlights waving furiously for me to stop. As the road was narrow, I had to slow right down while navigating my way around him without ploughing the idiot over. Then - when the wanker realised that I was not going to stop - he PUNCHED my car! Chrrist what did he think I was going to do? Stop and give a lift to some strange geezer who just happened to leap out of the freaking bushes and then jump in front of my car because that is just - you know - normal behaviour?!
Ha! It had just started snowing and it rapidly deteriorated into a full on blizzard a few minutes later, so I hope he got bloody wet!
Ah Sparkle you did precisely what women are constantly being told in respect of safeguarding their personal safety. You didn’t stop and pick up this potential male rapist (sic)!!!
Or how dare you not stop and at the very least speak in a very polite manner to this man after all he was telling you to stop your car!! Either way you are apparently in the wrong because he punched your car.
Seriously I hope he got a soaking in the blizzard.
I got the feeling he was trying to feign an emergency - because, women ‘always’ fall for the Florence Nightingale Syndrome involving wounded men, children and animals…
Oh yes, and what a mighty blizzard it turned out to be
Jenn, that was exactly what I said to Sparkle.
Great minds.
Deary me - who would have thought it - even a post about women protecting themselves brings out the women haters…because they equate me being scared with…wait for it…HATING MEN. Yup loads of sense - as usual.
I may have a bit more to say tomorrow as I humiliate their ramblings - maybe not.
This is what I love about choices!
What? How exactly did my post equate you with hating men? I was simply wondering your views as to violence in this particular situation.
Criminy! You are just sooo disobedient.
One of the great things about cell phones is that you can call out for assistance, and because people do call out for assistance more often, the carjackers are much less successful these days.
It wasn’t your post I was talking about 33rd. I blocked your comment because it tripped my Silly Words Meter for example - “gold-digger” and “pathetic feminine wiles”
Though how you manage to introduce the “gold digger” phenomena and “pathetic feminine wiles” into a post such as this is quite a feat - that I admit.
Also, he didn’t ‘dent’ my car - it’s a Chieftain Tank.
‘yes you gold-digger give me a lift before i punch your car in recognition of your pathetic feminine wiles’
i don’t sound mad at all.
woman fails to pick up nutter - world biased against men - shock!
For heavens sake sparks it is completely clear. There you are provocatively driving a car along a road. It is an obvious attempt to use your feminine wiles to get some man to marry you so you can divorce him and run off with all his money. Well it nearly worked for Heather Mills.
What I love about choices is that they come in so many flavours. Or is that crisps?
I think it was Jennifer’s “potential male rapist” that triggered them off. The word “potential” is just so loaded these days.
Some SP 3rd wavers get crisps and choices mixed up, so it’s hard to tell Polly.
Well a crisp has a right to be a choice if it identifies as a choice.
And if it identifies as a Pringle once in a while then I don’t see a problem for it not to be included in Pringle Activism.
This is hipster liberrral times yanno.
What was your car wearing?
Something skimpy I’ll bet.
SW your comment went into spam and I deleted it by mistake…
pisaquaririse - it was wearing a little black number but not too short!
Exactly what I was thinking Polly.
“it was wearing a little black number but not too short!”
geeezzz….you can’t go throwing around all that vehicular sex in men’s faces!!
Oh no my logical and oh so, so so, rational comment that perhaps this male might just, just just, be a potential rapist has set the male trolls wringing their hands and crying ‘male-hater, misandrists (do they know this term I ask myself?) etc. etc.
Now we all know what women should do - be passive, silent and never, never make any critical comments concerning some men’s behaviour or potential for criminal acts.
Does it not cross their minds that no woman in her right mind would stop when a strange man suddenly materialises out of the dark and attempts to hijack a female driver. Would for that matter any man in his right mind stop if he too were presented with this same scenario? Given that majority of women and men now have mobile phones why didn’t this man use his mobile phone.
No, Sparkle your instinct was right all along - you did the right thing in ignoring this individual. Upon my reading of this I too had the immediate impression this man is faking an emergency situation. Men don’t blame women for being extra vigilant vent your anger and blame on those men who rape and sexually abuse women.
PS Yes indeed Stormy you and I have great minds - but there so do many other women!
Well Jenn, I’m still mulling over Polly’s scenario. More amazed that she managed to put together a story including “gold digger” and “feminine wiles”, given the subject of the post.
You have to give the MRA trolls their due. Without them, we would have no hourly reminder why we are feminists.
Dark night, lonely road, fog–male apparition appears out of the mist and expresses entitlement?
I’d be turning the rig around, aiming, and laying rubber …
‘SW your comment went into spam and I deleted it by mistake…’
look i’m being oppressed!!!!
*stomps off to consult jonny*
Neche - that was very ‘atmospheric’ I almost felt that I was there, revving the engine, headlights on full beam…
SW this blog embraces experiential learning and I’m sure Johnny would welcome you back into the fold with open arms (though he may be busy as I noticed on the menarewotsits he was busy drinking 5 pints of beer, stripping and reassembling an AK 46 while doing one armed push ups)
Menarewotsits? So are you saying that men have the right to identify as cheesy snacks now Sparks? What will the crisps say?
They’ll say, well go ahead then! just don’t call me a cis-crisp!
though he may be busy as I noticed on the menarewotsits he was busy drinking 5 pints of beer, stripping and reassembling an AK 46 while doing one armed push ups
hmmmm well i don’t mind beer….
and i’m not convinced that despite the word ‘cheesy’ there is any cheese in them wotsits
My cat Tim - kills* cheesy wotsits then licks off the ‘not really cheese’
*Targeted four pawed attack from a great height.
maybe he thinks they are men…
even your cat oppresses us
*sniffs piteously at the tough hand men are dealt by life but shrugs shoulders bravely and resolves to struggle through somehow*
*sneezes because of bloody cat*
(how clever do you have to be to get from hitchikers to cheesy wotsits being mauled by cats in only 26 posts? this blog has it all!)
It is because, now the great Johnny has departed, we lack a male leader to keep us on topic SW. You just don’t cut it I’m afraid…
You had better go back to Johnny SW, a cat-free zone there I believe.
Actually, if you keep dissing the kitties, I may just have to demand you return to the macho-fest that is MABTWotsits.
I think Wotsits are better BTW. But I am partial to (fake-)cheesy snacks.
So is Cartman…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEbZ5omMw_c
I’m rather partial to faux-cheesy snacks too.
I am starting to worry about the amount of time Polly spends at YouTube.
In what way? I don’t have a telly….
if i didn’t have a telly i would eat quavers rather than wotsits as i was sitting not watching it.
without my cat.
Polly, you have a ‘YouTube moment’ for everything!
It’s the wonder of YouTube
Oh and this has no bearing on anything but is very funny…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN5T4NHqhsg
Waaa
…I hate Edmunds tho’
Infamous for my thread drifts…I know.
Oh well, who needs structures?
without my cat
I just can’t imagine SW. How does one lounge about the house without a cat?
Wotsits are still better.
lounge about the house? i have no time for such activities. i am man. i go out and bring back raw meat for woman and children. i scratch my personal areas and talk to man friends about sport. i do man stuff in shed with errr spanners (must ask polly) … probably. i have to return my brain to jonny at regular intervals for a dust round (done by woman i hope) and reminder of why i am better than various synthetic cheesy snacks.
and on top of all this i’m supposed to find the time to oppress all the women out there. spare a thought for me ‘man’ - or just send cash or quavers.
‘quavers and patriarchy - better for you than fags and cat hair’
Finally you hit funny SW.
And all you had to do was channel MRAism!
Say ‘hi’ to johnny from us, and reassure his fragile manhood that he is in fact, better than quavers. MABTQ. They’ll have to change the banner now.
On spanners SW, one does ’spanner stuff’ with them. It’s a need to know basis, and that’s all you need to know.
‘Finally you hit funny SW’ -
sheesh! how long does it take? it’s been years now. we’ll have to wait a while before it happens again. you are officially a tough house, stormers.
(thanks for the spanner info - off to set up http://www.spannerstuff.com)
Spanners - you use them to span, surely that’s bleeding obvious…..
Sparks you have no control, even less than me in fact…
I have no control…except over the flesh-light advocate in my evol oubliette, who feels that the miracle of the plastic vagina has improved his sexual technique.
Yes well…
Does he have the plastic vagina’s word for that though? Or are we expected to take it on trust?
I think he dreamed that he had been with a real woman once. Or maybe it was Florrie Flesh-light who told him how good his penis-centric technique was (because if you can fuck a plastic tube - then ya bound to be good) but yeah he didn’t disclose the finer details.
I think we just got to take this one on trust.
“Then - when the wanker realised that I was not going to stop - he PUNCHED my car!”
What an asshole!
I’m sorry this happened to you, Sparkle*Matrix. What a jerk!