I Experienced Road Rage Today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why do you? Well because we as humans or smart human cannot believe that flesh was wasted on someone with such little intelligence. I guess I must admit that I do not know the rules when someone is riding on a bike, but I do not get close to them and I tend to move away from them because I have seen a few bad accidents involving people on bikes. I use to live in Nevada and I can remember there everyone stopped for people walking, riding their bikes, fighting in the street... In Ohio they really don't even stop for the police or fire department. I really just think that it depends are where you are from. Sorry you had such a crappy experience. I wouldn't have yelled at you and I probably would have been doing 2 mph trying to avoid you in every way.

You aren't the only one. Although I learned to be careful not to piss them off. I may mumble to myself about how stupid their driving is, but I don't piss them off anymore. A few years ago a guy in a great big pickup truck cut me off. I honked at him and flipped him off. Boy was that a mistake! This guy went insane. He was pounding on his steering wheel so hard it was shaking. He was honking and shouting and eventually he ran me off the road. I had to do some pretty crazy driving to get away from this nut. I think the only thing that made him leave me alone is I picked up the phone, showed him what I had, and pretended to dial 911. He left me alone, terrified on the side of the road then.

I can't believe that she would have the nerve to do such a thing. And she must be some kind of idiot not to know that you are instructed to ride your bike on the road and not on the sidewalks. That's why they have been trying to make a lane for bikes too however they are not always there. In my area there are a lot of bicyclists and they are all on the road, and yeah I worry when driving about coming up on them, and don't feel comfortable passing them, but it's not their fault. I wish they made bike lanes above curbs just for the safety of the bicyclists, not because it's a pain to deal with it as a driver. I think ignorant people outrage us all, don't feel bad... you had a right to be angry.

Driving is so difficult because of the many people who do not know the rules of the road. I was teaching my brother's man helper to drive and he was just not getting it. At one point he started to honk at a bicyclist and I reprimanded him and told him to learn road courtesy. I am afraid he is not going to learn the right way to drive because he insists on learning his own way.

I experience road rage just by watching the road. This afternoon I was standing by the roadside waiting for a taxi when this guy, riding a bicycle, comes down the wrong side of the road riding against the traffic and then crosses over to the other side through the line of cars. I was totally amazed ! Where are the police when you need them the most ? Trinidad, as well as many other places, has a built in world of wonders. You can watch them all standing by the road every single day.

Your rage sounds comprehensive even i don't know the rules either. However, I hope you usually don't get anger so easily and you never hit a woman.

Well maybe you should come over to the country I abide in. We have such a huge population with very badly designed and maintained roads and the traffic situation in the metroes is pathetic. You will find people crisscrossing and jumping lanes anywhere they get a chance to do so. You feel like sometimes laetting your vehicle crash into theirs. Maybe if you drive for a while in this kind of a chaotic condition you will probably be able to control you road rage better when you drive in your country.

hi there loralee yes i don't drive but i know what you mean when silly drivers don't know the rules they should not even be on the roads less accidents in Australia where i livesd it was a long rd and he did 200km per hour i still did not understand how he did not have an accident i still don't know take care

Because they outnumber us other folks so much....lol. Now I have a new worry, road raging bicyclists...lol. I think I would've been worried about her swerving into me and knocking me off my bike. There are just some people who think the road belongs solely to them. Makes me wonder, why can't we all just get along?

Ok. Calm down. Stupid people do stupid things! I really don't think it is that they don't know but rather THEY JUST DON'T CARE. That is the really sad part. Lack of caring about your fellow american has become a horror in this country. It is so very frustrating.

Well... *I* am amazed at how many idiots on BICYCLES don't know the rules of the road that THEY have to follow! You, m'dear, seem to be the exception to the bicycling rules... you KNOW the rules. In America, most people view a bicycle as a "TOY" or "Recreational Vehicle" and NOT a "mode of transportation" ... as opposed to people in Holland who view it completely opposite. So, you have KIDS riding ALL over the road, sidewalks, etc etc, running stop signs, running stop lights, weaving in/out of traffic, on the wrong side of the road, not looking where they're going or what's around them... Generally speaking, in America, bicyclists are an unpredictalbe MEANACE on the roadway. I had a dear friend from Holland visit me several years ago, and he was in total SHOCK at the behavior of the bicyclists here in America. In Holland, biking safety, rules, and LAWS are taught SERIOUSLY in all the schools. Here, if bike safety is taught in the schools at ALL, it is a ONE day thing where all the kids are really sitting there ogling at the uniformed police officer, and soon forget all that is attempted to be taught to them. Bikers are equivalent to skate-boarders and the like... a nuisance and danger for car drivers. I realize that you had "good cause" to become upset with the driver, and you were right, and the driver was wrong... but in all honesty, cyclists are more of a problem for drivers than the other way around.

My driving motto is, everyone else on the road is an idiot. I tell myself that all the time when people do stupid stuff to help prevent me from getting worked up over things I can't actually control. I wish I could say it always helps me keep my cool. I also have developed an alternative set of vocabulary words to use. I use one set when I drive alone, another when I drive with the kids in the car.