Road Rage

[IceWolfEyes]

Heh, I have many good (or bad, depending on how you veiw them) stories about road rage.

While driving down a three lane street, I picked up a great one. The traffic was moderate, folks were just getting off work and whatnot. There really wasn't much trouble, most of us were going under the limit cus the street lights suck. Anyway, this dude blasts up behind me, weaving in and out of lanes. Almost clipped my back bumper before dodging around. I muttered, "I hope you crash." and then the dude topped the hill and left my line of sight. Not 5 minutes later I saw him again. He had rammed his car into the back of an 18 wheeler. Unfortunatally he had been wearing a seatbelt (or had a great amount of luck) as I saw him outside his car with a dumb expression on his face. His folly included 3 other cars that just got minor damage, scratched paint, etc. Personally, I'm just glad he missed my car, lol.

Another story is of the passive Road Rager. I was driving down a two laner and got stuck behind a real jerk. We were the only 2 cars on the road. I come driving about 3 over the limit (yeah, shame on me) in the right hand lane. This other car was also on the right side. I needed to make a turn, so I kinda hung out behind him. Then he applied the brakes. Repeatedly. I get in the left lane to go around him, and the dude speeds up! I'm almost at my turn, so I change lanes again. Take a guess at what he then did. That's right, he pressed his d@mn brakes again. Having been annoyed for several minutes, I nearly kissed his rear bumper with my front. Then my turn came up, and I was out of his diabolical clutches.

Anyone who irratates others for no reason needs to be shot.

[ChibiHorsewoman]

[quote name='Panda']Ah road rage, I live in a town where it is common to see the bumper sticker: "Keep honking, I'm reloading". The sad thing is that they probably really mean it!![/quote]

[color=darkviolet]I can sympathize with that Panda. The place that I lived in in Texas and where I live in New York is like that too. Over in the Albany area we had some guy kill a teacher from road rage...ok, so Albany is a 4 hour drive, but it's still in New York.

I've got a question, can grocery store incidents count as road rage? Because I have a good one that happened a few weeks ago...of course it happened [i]in[/i] the grocery store so that's why I'm asking. I was coming out of one of the aisles and this little girl almost hit my with her mom's shopping cart. The little girl said she was sorry, but then her mom goes, don't worry some people just don't watch where they're going. The girl goes 'Who me?' and the woman replies no. So I snapped back, "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know it was [i]my[/i] job to watch where [i]your[/i] kid was going.' Then I walked away.

Yeah, so it wasn't in a parking lot and it didn't involve a car...maybe you could call that store rage...or maybe cart rage.[/color]

[Mitch]

What can I say. Americans are fat and angry, and if you put them in a car they are in a car and fat and angry, and thus they shall scream at whoever is in their way.

I see it all the time. I seem to do it, too. It's not road rage, but you scream at anyone or say something in annoyance whenever you're driving and some old person driving makes you slow down, or whatever else it may be.

I bet road rage is a clinical disorder and they'll have to develop some pill to treat it. I bet some doctor would diagnose me with a minor case of it.