I think if even 10% of people here have a temperament like me, this topic will be a winner.. And a good place to get something off your chest at the end of the day..
My theme on this occasion.. Road rage...
I have an endless list of things that people do on the road that drive me nuts... But 99% of the time I can calm myself down and bite my tounge and just half ignore it, half prevent myself from spontaneously combustion..
But one thing that just equals instantaneous, uncontrollable explosion every time for me, is when another car does something wrong, and actually toots or abuses me because they somehow think i'm at fault...
Tonight's example.. I am on a two lane road heading into a round about.. I'm in the right lane and get to the front of the queue, and i'm planning on going straight through. To the left there is a train crossing about 80 meters away, and by the time I get to the roundabout, all of the cars have queued up at the train crossing and are now coming back into the round about. A car comes around the round about and pulls up at the back of it's traffic, just in front of the left hand lane next to me.. So they are totally blocked off. But i've got room to go through. I look at the traffic directly off to my right, and they aren't entering the round about as they know they can't continue on straight without clogging the whole thing up... I look over to the opposite corner (cars coming opposite direction to me) and there is a car taking off to go straight (no indicator).... So i'm like, I can go now... I start to go, just carefully to miss the back of the car parked in the round about to my left, and as I get right behind it, I hear a long toot.... WTF i'm thinking,,, and look to my right, and see this VW beetle right beside me with a girl driving and a guy in the passenger side (immasculated anyone?) and they are both waving their arms about.....
Instant pure rage from me!!!! Firstly when I started to go, they were on the opposite corner of the round about only just entering it themselves... Two, they weren't even indicating at any time yet still expected I should know they are going to come around. and THREEEEE - The only place for them to go where I was taking up, was parked right across ANOTHER lane entering the round about, hence they would be clogging up BOTH lanes from entering.....
Yet the toot and abuse me.... ???
The rage !!!!!
Well, that's my venting for now... feel free to add any of the little things that annoy you... and enjoy
My theme on this occasion.. Road rage...
I have an endless list of things that people do on the road that drive me nuts... But 99% of the time I can calm myself down and bite my tounge and just half ignore it, half prevent myself from spontaneously combustion..
But one thing that just equals instantaneous, uncontrollable explosion every time for me, is when another car does something wrong, and actually toots or abuses me because they somehow think i'm at fault...
Tonight's example.. I am on a two lane road heading into a round about.. I'm in the right lane and get to the front of the queue, and i'm planning on going straight through. To the left there is a train crossing about 80 meters away, and by the time I get to the roundabout, all of the cars have queued up at the train crossing and are now coming back into the round about. A car comes around the round about and pulls up at the back of it's traffic, just in front of the left hand lane next to me.. So they are totally blocked off. But i've got room to go through. I look at the traffic directly off to my right, and they aren't entering the round about as they know they can't continue on straight without clogging the whole thing up... I look over to the opposite corner (cars coming opposite direction to me) and there is a car taking off to go straight (no indicator).... So i'm like, I can go now... I start to go, just carefully to miss the back of the car parked in the round about to my left, and as I get right behind it, I hear a long toot.... WTF i'm thinking,,, and look to my right, and see this VW beetle right beside me with a girl driving and a guy in the passenger side (immasculated anyone?) and they are both waving their arms about.....
Instant pure rage from me!!!! Firstly when I started to go, they were on the opposite corner of the round about only just entering it themselves... Two, they weren't even indicating at any time yet still expected I should know they are going to come around. and THREEEEE - The only place for them to go where I was taking up, was parked right across ANOTHER lane entering the round about, hence they would be clogging up BOTH lanes from entering.....
Yet the toot and abuse me.... ???
The rage !!!!!
Well, that's my venting for now... feel free to add any of the little things that annoy you... and enjoy