[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by MikeV

Knowing I was being followed the last thing I would do is drive to my driveway. I would have just kept driving around in circles until the follower got tired of tailing me. I also would have called 911 to report a stalker.

She explained she thought it was a neighbor or a friend.
In that situation, I think many of us would have approached the car.
Good lesson learned!

[DruannB]

I'm glad you are ok. I like to confuse rude people by being really nice, sickingly nice. They don't know where to go from there.

[The20Percent]

This sounds like the same nut case my wife encountered a week ago. I had pulled into the Publix parking lot at Colony and went thru one space into another to where our cart was facing in the wrong direction, but was still well within the space. I went in to grab a couple items while she stayed behind sitting in the cart. When I came out she told me to hurry and leave. As we headed home I could tell she was visibly shaken and she started to tell me that while she was sitting in the cart, a man in his 60s pulled up and parked next to our golf cart and started shouting the worst obscenities! He was screaming and cursing about the way the golf cart was parked and throwing up his arms. My wife was shocked and only replied to him as he walked toward the store "life is too short" and in return he yelled back as he was crossing the street "that's not my F-ing problem!!"

Now had I crossed paths with this man while I was coming out of the store and found him cursing at my wife...there would have been hell to pay!!! She knew there would be also and that's why she wouldn't tell me what had happened until we were far away from that parking lot.

People need to be aware that their bad attitudes, gestures and bad behavior can lead to altercations which they may not be able to get themselves out of. The vast majority of people in TV are extremely nice and I consider myself one of them, but anyone can be pushed to their limits and made to react. Being a complete psychopath and cursing out a lady, and especially one's wife, is one of those reasons!

[mixsonci]

Originally Posted by MikeV

Knowing I was being followed the last thing I would do is drive to my driveway. I would have just kept driving around in circles until the follower got tired of tailing me. I also would have called 911 to report a stalker.

This is exactly what I was thinking she should have done. I would like to see the look on his ugly face and try to explain what he was doing when the police car pulled him over, hopefully with their guns out?

[zonerboy]

One of the main purposes of these gates is to slow down auto and truck traffic so that golf carts can safely negotiate busy intersections. The fact that a gate is open (because it is broken or for any other reason) does not mean you can just go flying thru. You must still slow down and stop briefly.
Just my opinion.l

[Madelaine Amee]

I was in Walgreen's at Parr Drive this week and while I was searching the shelves for something I needed I heard a commotion at the front of the store, it got louder and louder. Turns out it was a woman at the photo counter, I have no idea what had actually happened, but she was accusing them of losing her pictures and she then proceeded to tell them she was half blind and could not keep driving back and forth from her home to their store because they could not find her pictures.

Hmmm half blind and she is driving some sort of motorized vehicle, be it a car or a golf cart. I was waiting for them to call the police, but I guess they got it sorted because everything went quiet at the front of the store.

[BobnBev]

Originally Posted by Kahuna32162

I went to the drive in teller drive thru at citizens first at Mulberry today in my cart. A car was stopped between lanes, I pulled into an open lane and was told I was rude because she was waiting for the best lane. As it worked out, I had to to wait longer to get my business done, but I was told I was rude. I made sure to offer her a great day for getting done a few minutes earlier than me, the rude one!

There's no doubt in my mind that she also saves chairs at the town squares.
Once an a/h....well, you can guess the rest.

[graciegirl]

Last year a person who had just moved to Hadley broke out a car window and punched a senior woman while her adult son tried to protect her because he drove too slowly through the circle near Havana Country Club..

Crazy - Road Rage incident in The Villages

[buggyone]

Originally Posted by dbussone

You were correct in your approach to the gate. However, I am concerned about the lack of safety on your part in approaching someone who followed you home. Were you one of my family members I would hope you would have noted the car model and color, and especially the license plate number; then dialed 911. There are too many strange people about these days. Your safety and health are more important to family and friends than the consequences of dealing with some wacko (not the PC term).

Absolutely, you offered the right response. Chances are that the person was not dangerous and just real teed off for having to slow down - but to follow someone home is on the looney side.

Of course, if the poster had gotten out of her car and turned to get the license plate number, model, and car color, the loon may have gotten even more angry and done something physical on her. You never know.

[Happinow]

If I can be totally honest, I am afraid to use the light on 466A and Morse. When coming back from colony plaza I get in the left turn lane to turn on Morse. Many times, when the light is green, cars pull into that intersection to turn left. It is most difficult to see that "the coast is clear" if there are cars in the turn lane in the opposite direction so I rarely try to turn without the green arrow telling me it's my turn. I just cannot see around the traffic in the opposite direction to safely make a left hand turn. If the car(s) behind me are impatient they honk their horn. It is an uneasy feeling knowing that there are such impatient people behind me and that I am unable to make that decision on my own to turn, based on the possibility of oncoming traffic at 45-50mph. It's easy to miss a car coming and get t-boned. I figure it's my life and nobody else should be deciding for me when should make a turn Into oncoming traffic. When the snowbirds come, I will either take the cart or not frequent that intersection. I fear the driver behind me may get out of their vehicle and assault me or follow me to my house like the other guy did recently to the other poster. It's a shame we should be made to feel this way on the roads.

[Medtrans]

This saddens me that you had to go through that and also what others have experienced. What is wrong with people? Well at least some people. We just bought a home in Lake Deaton and are now in the north Chicago area waiting to retire next year. This worries me. I don't see that kind of behavior here or really any other area we have lived in. Sure I see crazy drivers but I guess no one reacts to it, they drive crazy and expect others to do the same I guess. I have never seen someone give another person the finger (at least not in years) and I have never seen someone yelling and cursing and using an F-bomb. So this scares me as we are about to live the dream that we have been planning for and anxiously awaiting. I have to wonder why people who are retired and should be at the most relaxed happy part of their lives act like this? I know people have problems even after retirement but come on, they came to TV to live the dream and now they act like this? While I will still be excited to begin our lives down there, it is a concern.

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by buggyone

Absolutely, you offered the right response. Chances are that the person was not dangerous and just real teed off for having to slow down - but to follow someone home is on the looney side.

Of course, if the poster had gotten out of her car and turned to get the license plate number, model, and car color, the loon may have gotten even more angry and done something physical on her. You never know.

It scares me when I read the threads about how many people carry concealed weapons. And I'm sure some of them have very short tempers.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by Medtrans

This saddens me that you had to go through that and also what others have experienced. What is wrong with people? Well at least some people. We just bought a home in Lake Deaton and are now in the north Chicago area waiting to retire next year. This worries me. I don't see that kind of behavior here or really any other area we have lived in. Sure I see crazy drivers but I guess no one reacts to it, they drive crazy and expect others to do the same I guess. I have never seen someone give another person the finger (at least not in years) and I have never seen someone yelling and cursing and using an F-bomb. So this scares me as we are about to live the dream that we have been planning for and anxiously awaiting. I have to wonder why people who are retired and should be at the most relaxed happy part of their lives act like this? I know people have problems even after retirement but come on, they came to TV to live the dream and now they act like this? While I will still be excited to begin our lives down there, it is a concern.

Remember that many of us have lived here for years and not had such an extreme thing happen, but many of us were "taught" driving behaviors along with self restraint and manners in the area of the country we grew up in and are shocked and irritated by horn honking and obscene gestures and ignoring stop signs that are common in other sections of the country.

I remember reading on this forum that it was "no big deal" not to stop at all stop signs seven years ago and I was really, really surprised. I come from Ohio.

[dbussone]

Originally Posted by zonerboy

One of the main purposes of these gates is to slow down auto and truck traffic so that golf carts can safely negotiate busy intersections. The fact that a gate is open (because it is broken or for any other reason) does not mean you can just go flying thru. You must still slow down and stop briefly.
Just my opinion.l

In fact, there are signs posted telling cars to slow to 5 MPH. As you correctly point out, this is not optional because a gate is up.

[Medtrans]

I know what you mean Gracie. I guess my point is that reading that this goes on just takes away a little of the excitement we have to getting there to begin our retirement. Don't worry I'll get over it by the time this thread is done and I'll get back to being excited and ready for the next chapter in life. We come down for a visit on the 24th so we will enjoy our time and let those who want to live an angry frustrated live do their thing.