Avoid Being Drawn to Road Rages
Driving along the streets especially in traffic can lead to arguments and often encounters that can suddenly look ugly. Drivers go as far as coming to blows while others pull out their guns in cases where they feel that they were beaten to instances like being first or being cut when driving around in the streets. But one thing you should ask for yourself, what do you get out of all of this road rage once everything has been done? Does it make you a better driver or better yet a better person?
This can also be typified as the power tripping driver. Many people who hold key positions in the government or perhaps are granted a license for carrying firearms make them all the more unreasonable drivers, wanting to be the superior person wherever they may be. These instances have resulted in some tragedies and have gone as far as claiming people’s lives or ruining their reputations. Sad as it may, it is all because of lack of courtesy and respect for emotions that drivers cannot contain when they are on the road.
There is no doubt that a lot of us have had our share in terms of encountering such instances. There is no doubt that such outrages will lead to nowhere. The real challenge of driving is not just about how well you drive your car but also about how focused you are on the road. Losing that may very well be a signal to just hire a driver or avoid driving a car to avoid the inconveniences.
Written by Marcel on November 25, 2010 | 1 Comment Leave a Comment
People drive with lots of mental baggage and seem to justify the any moment possible to empty that baggage explosively into road rage.
Some will purposely speed up when another driver signals to turn into the lane in front of them. They speed up like an NBA ball player falls backwards when another player chargers in front of them, to make it look more dramatic for the refs to get a foul against the opponent.
People, your driving with, I assume, a valid license plate, right? You don’t know who your provoking while behind the wheel committing your road rage even if the other driver is wrong, what are you doing?
The odds are, you’ve been getting away with road rage for some time, and just haven’t come across the wrong driver yet, and I stress yet, if you continue. You have some very sick people on the road that are very capable of truly messing with your life.
I say sick because they are no better by using what power they currently have to counter your aggression. You don’t know it might be a disgruntled ex-cop kicked off the force or forced to resign, whatever, who still has access to a number of resources or people, use your imagination.
Or how about the computer hacker, a person that has the ability to take your tag number or the registered owners car your driving and start illegally skip tracing for information to begin messing with you or the registered owner’s car your driving, etc.
Folks, it’s not worth road rage. It might feel good putting your middle finger and yelling some obscene thoughts but it changes nothing in the end. Then again, it just might end unhappily–some negative.
I worked with an ex special ops dude in our transportation business that literally followed a lady that cut him off. He was a nice dude, but if you pissed him off? I truly feel sorry for his victim, wow! Needless to say, he was terminated.
Is it really worth taking a chance with your life playing road rage?