I think I still suffer from it but now it's passenger seat road rage. Like yesterday, since I wasn't driving and couldn't pass the asshole with the Ohio tags, I got even more mad and flipped out in the passenger seat.
Try rolling through Florida sometime. I dont have RR, but down there I just want to get away from everybody.
So none of you get road rage? I used to get it really bad. I had a guy jump out of his car once because he pulled right out in front of me and I laid on my horn for about 1 minute straight. I just veered around him and keep going. Part of me wanted to run him over but there were people behind me. I just get pissed when people act like assholes when they drive. They act like they are the only people on the road and have no consideration for anyone else. That's what makes my blood boil. If you pull out in front of someone, that someone should never have to hit their brakes because of it. If they do, you are an asshole and you deserve to get your car hit. I always wanted a big old truck that I could hit people with... one with big wheels that would drive OVER cars like they do at interstate fairs that I have never been to or seen but heard about.
I get it every once in a while. I live like 15 minutes from the city part of my county... so I have 15 minutes of country roads. I go insane when I get stuck behind a permed old lady in a Buick going 35 MPH. I like it when some idiot almost hits you (their fault) and you blow the horn... and they get all crazy. I have magnets on the side & back of my car with our company name /number in them. Its funny how people call to complain about my driving. My husband has the same magnets on his car and get calls or messages about his parking. In my younger days I had BAD road rage, but now since most of the time I have a kid in the car with me, I am pretty calm and don't start fights. I absolutely CAN NOT ride passenger - with anyone. I hate cabs, in Vegas I took like 5 cab rides, and one Hotel bus thingy ... each time nearly having a heart attack.
I tend to stay conscious of the other motorists, and more often than not, calculating to the point where I can predict a driver's move based on their actions with other vehicles. I'm somewhat like Icenhour, in that I have difficulty surrendering my control over the vehicle while riding, and sometimes the mood will strike me when I predict the path of the impatient one that will gain all of a second by passing three cars in a zig-zag pattern, and subtly accelerate or decelerate just enough to foil their strategy, but not enough to appear obvious in my endeavor. Maybe it's just me, but I feel that I'm doing the driving community a service by training these damn 16 year olds to be patient. Then again, I could just be playing the asshole. Most likely the latter.
I get it but try to keep control. I keep trying to see myself from an other persons perspective. Would I think of myself as an asshole while driving. More often than not I would. I'm by nature a competitive driver naturally sensing people around me without turning my head picking up out of the corner of my eye that guy besides me who drove consistently at 60 for the last mile is speeding up to keep me from moving in so I give him about 2 inches and cut him off. It is bad enough that just to keep my cool I let the wife drive and I relax in the passenger seat. I have been known to stop in the middle of the street. Once I stopped in the freeway left lane I did not get out though someone was riding my ass with their high beams on. Google this and look at the slow turn east bound I40 exit : hermitage tennessee Exit 221A Just because some guy came by me in a Ferarri the little one like in Magnum PI about 60 at the exit I raced him in my 96 Neon Sport and blew by him close to 100 around the apex of the turn. I had given him room and dropped to 4th then slingshot around to the left side using the whole road. All four tires were squeeling. He prolly had more car than me but not the balls to do it. After I got to the light at shute lane I thought "Damn that was stupid".
I cuss at people all day in my car but they can't hear me so no harm. I do sometimes want to pull people over and ask them WTF they were thinking. Like when someone passes me just to seconds later pull onto an exit ramp. I want to stop them and ask how mini nanoseconds they think they saved by blazing around me. I do hope there is a special room in Hell for those who wait until the last minute to merge. People that pass everyone else on the shoulder like the rules don't apply to them. I will ride the bumper of the car ahead of me to block them out. A woman behind me once pulled beside me and stayed to block all other traffic from "cheating." I let her in at the end becasue she explained her strategy to me through the open window. I want to creat a little noise maker that I can attach to my steering wheel that makes machine gun and bomb sounds so I can pretend to be dogfighting as I drive. A nice laser HUD would also be cool.
I drive mostly late at night and there is no traffic at all but when I do venture out in the daylight hours it amazes me how many bad drivers there are.The thing that drives me crazy is people that stop at yield signs,I think they need to put a definition of what yield means at the bottom of the sign,but then that would probably just make them sit there longer reading the damn sign.You want to see how bad drivers really are,drive a motorcycle for a while,it is like you are invisible.When I had my last bike I couldn't count how many close calls I had.
There are two sides to the story though. Coming home from Memorial Day weekend outing (bad idea traffic was a nightmare) there were two lanes if you wanted to drive slow you could simply drive in the right hand land but some ass wipe would sit in the left hand lane next to a tractor trailer no doubt patting him/herself on the back about how much more responsible and mature they are than everyone else. So you would end up with 30 cars backed up behind them. Finally when the Semi hits a hill and slows down more people would gat a daring chance to floor it like a bat out of hell to get around. Well that went on for so long. Then one time this guy in a little blue Honda hits his brakes next to a semi while a bunch had been trying to get around. The slinky effect ensued I was about five cars back and my anti lock brakes were trying hard to skid I look in the mirror and BAM! this guy in a pickup didn't have a chance. The guy five cars up caused it. The supposed responsible safe activist driver. Speed does not kill. Differentiation of speed kills.
Oh I get road rage, oh and is it ever loud. Dumb ass women in suv's where I live, I swear, they think they are kings of the road.
Sorry to brake it to you, but "Anti-lock brakes" were initially conceived as a method for allowing people that didn't understand the physics of braking itself to overcome the obvious shortcomings of a forceful stomp on the pedal in hopes that the vehicle will stop. Anti-Lock brakes are standard features in automobiles because they placate the "MUST STOP" autonomic reaction that people have when they are faced with an unusual circumstance. Granted, they try to prevent "lock-up" when someone stomps on the brake pedal, but the mandatory application of this feature is yet another example of government interference in our lives. For fuck's sake, teach someone whom commands a vehicle on the road how to "pump the pedal" and prevent them from plowing into a pileup 100 yards away, before you program their car to not directly respond to their innate, knee-jerk response of slamming on the brakes.
many rednecks in my town have installed train horns on big ol pick up trucks. About 2 times a month I wish I had one myself. Has anyone else seen this fad... or is it just my town?
