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Good job, man. Life is too short as it is. Good lesson for us all....
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Too true. I can get mad. But if you think it thru to the end, there is no happy ending. It's either someone getting killed, hurt, or getting arrested. For what? Cus someone hurt your ego? I should be ashamed of myself!
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One thing that's really gotten me out of "road rage" is riding the motorcycle.
It doesn't take long to realize that getting into confrontations with other drivers would most likely go badly for me; so now I shrug off whatever other drivers do. I'd much rather have an inconsiderate driver get ahead of me and be on their way where they can't have an impact on me.
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Regional differences perhaps. To us, this is a 2-lane road: No matter the road, arriving safe and sound is my primary goal. Everything else is secondary. cotten |
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There is something about the act of driving which reveals a primal violence in humans.
Every day, currently, Jane and I have to commute to a hospital 20 miles west of us, which is the same road that I used to my office until I left the corporate world in '93. This road has three intersections which seem to cause confusion and, sometimes some aggressive driving. I remember that back in the day , I was an aggressive driver, and would, at times take exception to other's actions - I was also frequently "wound up" about the challenges of the day to come. We did it again this morning. The same silly things happened. But this is southern England - no guns, no violence ......... but ......one day shortly after I had stopped making that journey there was an altercation which involved two drivers stopping for an argument. Two young married men with a bit too much tension and testosterone came together. One grabbed the first thing in the back of his truck that came to hand. It was an Axe. He killed the other man with it. He was probably just another guy worried about getting to work on time, paying the bills, etc. Our baser human instincts are never as well hidden as we'd like to think.
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We are somewhat anonymous when we are in our cars so we tend to do things we would never consider doing while, for example, walking on a crowded sidewalk.
We become our cars when we are behind the wheel. A car can make the most mild mannered being into a super hero. We have 300 horses under the hood to speed away, and we are surrounded by steel. Cars with all their power and protection make us capable of doing things we can't do on our own. I can't run the 100 meters in 10 seconds, but even the fastest man on earth can't catch me in my car.
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Getting into a car turns a lot of people into a different human beings.
The cars become sort of like a mask and they express their feelings rather freely while the same person would not be so expressive face to face. A car is an interesting tool that changes people, usually negatively. |
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i loved the ending to this story!!!
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I'm glad this incident ended well, and I sincerely hope you continue to continue to learn to control your emotions, especially while driving. Good luck. |
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I love the fact that the AGF is multi-national! Though we all use what we call English, we use it differently, and I enjoy learning some of these differences. It's a fascinating language, one in which a house can burn up and down simultaneously! We even have words with opposite meanings, such as recover. In one sense, recover means to hide away, as in the wear and tear on an old chair to make it look new again. But recover can also mean to bring out of hiding, as when an Ovation is found safe and sound among the debris after being washed away in a flood. I've decided I also like being called Sir cotten, and shall henceforth refer to myself this way, in the third person as often as possible. At least for the next ten minutes or so, when my wife gets home. Sir cotten |
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I used to live in King of Prussia near the junction of Rts 422, 202, Interstate 76 and the PA Turnpike. Around there they count the shoulder as a lane. It was also there that I learned the "Hawaiian Good Luck" sign but had an experience in center city that caused me to be a less aggressive driver. Now I hope my scared expression as I cut off a transit bus brightened the mood of the other motorist who'd actually gotten out of his car.
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