It’s funny the things that bother one person does not bother another. One of the things that bother me is drivers that are in such a hurry that they ignore common courtesy and endanger others. Every day you can see countless examples of this and I wonder why the number of accidents aren’t higher.
Weavers. People who weave in and out of traffic only to end up at the same traffic light as you. They usually do this without signaling lane changes – who could signal that fast anyway – and most often barely manage to avoid the front end of the car they just cut in front of. More and more you see only part of their face because the cell phone is hiding the rest.
Bumper kissers. The ones that ride so close to your rear bumper that they would ‘kiss’ it if you had to stop suddenly. Riding my bumper isn’t going to convince me to speed up. It’s just going to annoy me. Or are they afraid that someone might manage to weave in front of them and thus get to the upcoming red light two seconds faster than them?
40 in a 25. School zones. This upsets me the most. Kids don’t always look before stepping out into the street people! You can’t do 25 mph for three minutes? If you are that close to being late to work, you need to leave a few minutes earlier. I’ve seen a child hit. I’ve had a boy run out without looking and hit my car. Thankfully, I was nearly stopped at a red light and he wasn’t hurt, but he could have been. If the light had been green. If I had been going 40 instead of 10. If I’d been yakking on my cell or putting on makeup or reading the paper (yes. People do that.) and hadn’t seen him step off the curb.
Line cutters. You know what I mean. The places where two lanes merge into one usually at off ramps. These people are behind you in the same lane, but they cut into the disappearing lane and zoom up ten or so cars and then forcefully edge into traffic. What gives you the right? What makes your time more precious than mine? Where are you going that you couldn’t get there five minutes later?
Car rockers.If I wanted to hear what you were listening to – I’d have it playing in my car. How many times I’ve sat next to a vehicle their bass thumping through my car and body making both vibrate and thought: what would they do if I got out, knocked on the window, and asked them to turn it down. In today’s society, they might curse me out or get out and beat me to a pulp. Who knows which, but that thought keeps me in my car quietly fuming. Sometimes though it just ticks me off and I turn my radio up loud enough to drown their’s out.
Yeah. I know. Tit for tat. Two wrongs don’t make it right. That’s the human in me though. I don’t always do the right thing though I try. I try because I’m raising a child to treat people decently. I can’t do that if I don’t treat people decently even when they aren’t being considerate or decent in return.
I wonder if I spray calming lavender in my car if that would decrease my annoyance when I’m out on the road battling the urge to give into road rage. Hmmm…..
