My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant

So on the way back from the Gorge yesterday, I'm stuck in (by Portland standards) heavy traffic and nearing home. I find myself behind some clod in a Lexis and he's actually driving slower then traffic as we go up the hill. Then he starts to weave into the bike lane and for about 400' he's driving in both the right lane and said bike lane. No bikes are in said lane btw. I can't really drive around him because 2 blocks later later I need to turn right and the traffic is such that I'm not going to get around him. As we make our way to the light I can see that he's playing on PDA/Cell phone and looking up to make sur ehe doesn't cause an accident. Now the folks in the left lane are cutting in front of him and because he's driving so slow we miss the light. He's obviously not paying attention to traffic and I give him a honk at this point.

As we settle up to the red light he rolls down his window and starts to yell at me (I'm right behind him in my mini-van). Honestly I shake my head at this point and yell back "Dude, you're not paying attention to traffic, that's why I honked at you." The response is "Do you want to settle this like men!" I shake my head again and ignore the threat and repeat myself again "you're paying attention to traffic, you have your head out the window and you can't see the light, you're obviously not paying attention to traffic" More yelling back and forth. I hate to say it but this whole thing is ludicrous. Part of me is thinking, did I really need to honk at this retard, another part of me is laughing that this same retard is all ass hurt about having been called out about his bad driving and his ego won't let roll the window back up and get on with his sad ass life.

Anyway, the light turns green and traffic begins to roll, well all accept our lane as this same retard is still yelling at me about how great a driver he is and how big an asshole I am. Again, I repeat myself with how he's not paying attention to traffic and how he hasn't noticed the light is green. His response is classic, he yells about knowing it's green and that it's more important that he yells at me and be right then to get on with life at this point. Since he's now blocking traffic for at least a mile and people are passing our yelling match everyone else stuck behind him is getting mad and they start to honk. It's at this point Mr Retard finally figures out that he's in the wrong rolls up his window and starts to drive. Another block later and I'm turning and getting on with mine.

A day later I'm not really feeling proud of being such and irritant over such a stupid thing. That having been said I still think the guy was amusing for being so butt hurt over a honk. I really hope he worked out his frustrations and didn't go home and beat the wife and/or kids.