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Originally Posted by car_roll
One of my worst road rage experiences was when I was 17.
I was pulling out of my neighborhood and proceeded to drive at the 30 mph speed limit. Next thing you know, a newer VW beetle is on my tail honking their horn and what not (I assumed it was probably a female driver). I was already having a bad day, so I flipped off the driver, but continued driving. The driver attempted to cut me off and block me from going anywhere. To my surprise, a male Hispanic about twice my size, fully tatted, with a wife beater storms out towards my driver side door, and is immediately aggressive (no words were exchanged at all). He attempted to open my door, but for some reason, I just so happened to lock my door before driving that day, and have my windows closed, except for my sunroof. He noticed my sunroof was open and proceeded to start swinging through my sunroof. Thankfully he was only able to graze the side of my head. He got off my car and tried to break my window. At that point I decided to take off (no license plate number taken unfortunately). Thankfully I didn't get into an accident when driving on the opposite side of the road and running a red light. More importantly, my car took no damage 
Moral of the story: You never know what can happen. He could have easily been armed and, without hesitation, leave me dead on the road. Too many people have no regard for others well being. It's just not worth it. |
Sooo... let's use this story to study cause and effect:
You thought this - "I assumed it was probably a female driver"
So you did this - "I was already having a bad day, so I flipped off the driver"
And it resulted in this - "To my surprise, a male Hispanic about twice my size, fully tatted, with a wife beater storms out towards my driver side door"
If you had known it was a male driver would you have flipped them off?
If you had not had a "bad day" (I think everyday I had when 17 was "bad" at some point) would you have flipped them off?
If you had not flipped them off would the same scenario have played out?
Do you not think flipping somebody off is aggressive behaivour of it's own right (milder of course)?
Not slamming you here dude but this is a great example of the fact that road rage is almost always a two way street. Hear stories like this all the time and every one of them involved both drivers doing something to incite or escalate the situation but it is always "the other guy's" fault from the story teller's perspective.