Several Reasons You Should Keep Your Road Rage Under Control

Posted by The Marksman at 7 July, at 09 : 03 AM Print

We have all been in this situation before; you’re driving down the street enjoying your favorite song.  Next thing you know the brakes are screeching as you try to prevent your vehicle from slamming into the jackass in front of you that cut you off.  Having nearly avoided a car accident you next go into a fit of rage, you immediately look for an opportunity to pull up next to the person and give them a piece of your mind.  In the meantime since you can’t find an avenue to get next to the vehicle, you start to make gestures and cussing the person out making sure they see you if they look in their rear view mirror.

Ultimately you find an opportunity to get next to them, and you take it.  As you pull up next to the jackass that almost caused an accident, you look over and make sure they know that you are pissed.  Typically the person looks straight ahead, but they know what you are doing out of the peripheral vision.  They know they were wrong and are choosing to ignore all of your insults and gestures directed at them hoping you leave it alone.

After berating the person with them attempting to avoid your gaze, you speed up and cut them off for the ultimate take that.  You have now committed the same act that made you mad with them in the first place, and have risked causing an accident yourself.  The other driver has now measured you as a crazy mofo, and has probably slowed down enough to put some distance between you.  You feel vindicated that you got them back and go on about your business.

Most people have experienced it in that way or similar, but what if it did not always happen that way.  What if one of these times when you were taking out your frustrations on some random driver they fought back?  I am not talking about the resulting high speed, lane changing, weaving in and out of traffic that seems to ensue in these situations.  Instead you run into a hardened criminal, or someone who is willing to escalate things father than you.

“One day I and some friends decided to play with this guy in traffic because he was tailgating me for a long time.  He finally passed me and shot a pissed of glance over at my car as he passed by.  I started tailgating him, and swerving my car side to side while I was behind him to mess with him a bit, then one of my friends noticed the driver held up a gun and waved it at us.  I immediately braked, and put some distance between my car and his, I don’t think I am going to road rage on anyone again.” – Carl W.

This is just one example where getting into a traffic fight with someone could have resulted in a serious situation.  You have no clue who the person in the other car is or what they are capable of.  It is disturbing when I see people with children in the car road raging with someone because they cut them off.  Recently in Tampa, Florida two police officers were killed while conducting a routine traffic stop.  They were shot in the head at point blank range, I am sure the two officers used caution in the situation, but still lost their lives.  Think about what would happen if you were road raging with that person, and it elevated to a point where they took a few shots at you?

Road Rage is not worth doing; it causes a lot of stress and makes people operate outside of their safety zone.  The average person would not weave in and out of traffic at high speeds under normal circumstances, nor would they make obscene gestures at the driver in front of them.  If someone cuts you off, take a deep breath get some distance between their car and yours.  Take the time to realize that a moment of getting mad at someone is not worth your life.

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