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Originally Posted by Tcoat
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"
1. If you had known it was a male driver would you have flipped them off?
2. 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?
3. If you had not flipped them off would the same scenario have played out?
4. 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.
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1. At that time, if I had known it was a male driver to begin with, I still probably would have flipped him off. Had I known he was twice my size, well of course not
2. I wouldn't have. Any other day, I probably would have just pissed and moaned to myself.
3. Honestly who knows. I doubt he would have charged at me at the next red light just because I was going the speed limit, but again, who knows.
4. Absolutely.
I learned to contain myself since then. Being in SoCal, I encounter reckless/stupid drivers on a daily basis. I've grown to expect that type of driver every day, and as a result, I've become more of a defensive driver and try to keep calm at all times.