Driving irritants or Road Rage?
By angel_690
@angel_690 (208)
United States
March 7, 2007 3:46pm CST
I was sitting at the light waiting to turn left, when the light changed I had to wait till the car across the way came across, Before I could even get moving the car behind me started honking 3 times. I became irritated and moved even slower. I know I should have not let that person get to me but I am so tired of inpatient drivers that cannot seem to slow down(which I am guilty of to i have to admit)I would like to know about your driving irritations and any incidents of road rage.
1 response
@DoubleBarrelled (28)
• United States
7 Mar 07
I don't drive (Im' 16), but I do bike everywhere I go, and I live in a pretty busy city. And let me tell you, there are some stupid morons driving out there who don't pay attention to anything. People who don't realize they're driving 3,000 pound deadly weapons. I've had people pass me at high speeds very close when they didn't have to, people cut me off (which is inexcusable, you have to look before merging), people open their doors right into my path. Just the other day a truck merged right in to me, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt because it's possible I was in his blind spot.
But you asked about road rage. The most extreme thing I've ever witnessed was between a cyclist and a sport's car. The sport's car cut him at about 50 mph. He could have killed him. So the biker caught up to the car at a red light, and kicked his door in. Literally, he left a big old dent in the door of this brand new expensive sports car. The biker took off down a side street and the car started chasing him. Unfortunetly, I didn't get to see what happened next, but I can only imagine.