Road RageLast week I had to stop a guy attacking another one in the middle of the road - one had run the lights whilst on the phone and the other had objected. I actually had to take the attacker's car keys out of their car and tell him he wasn't getting them back till he calmed down.
Looking back on it, I was lucky I was feeling all parental and in control or the situation could have panned out very differently.
Have you lost it on the roads, or have you been on the recieving end of some nutter?
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chthonic, Thu 12 Oct 2006, 21:31)
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Two weeks after passing my test.I was driving along down the M20, when some old feller pulled in front of me, without indicating, and proceeded to slow right down.
Five minutes later, the red mist cleared and I found myself doing 120mph down the outside lane, still screaming abuse at the old man who was by now so far behind I doubt he could even see, let alone hear me.
It was just then that the truth hit me. I had become my dad, only about three times worse.
Happily I've never lost it to that extent since. I do still hurl abuse at people with minimal provocation, but I've spent most of my life doing that, so it doesn't really count as road rage.
(, Sun 15 Oct 2006, 21:05, Reply)
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