What would you do.....road rage or not?

[TiggerTrigger]

I don't usually classify it as road rage unless you're aggressively pursued. I know I've accidentally cut people off and got honked at, gestured at, and/or cursed out in the moment. I know I've done the same to some people. I've also had people behave the same way if I'm in a line-cutter-prone area and don't allow them to cut me off.

The girls' first batting coach and I used to discuss this and he was all for just letting them in. His feeling was that with the high instances of road rage in these parts and the number of people that are carrying (we're in Texas), it was worth your life to just allow yourself to be cut off. There's not even a stereotype. I'm just as likely to deal with a road rager in high end luxury car/sports car as I am a guy with a gun rack in his big pickup, a huge tractor trailer, or something that looks like someone is in to illegal street racing. I just have such a hard time with that. On one hand, he's right...it's not worth being shot at over traffic. On the other, we're not going to fix anything in society if we just let people get away with this stuff. Of course, I'm probably not fixing anything by refusing the line cutters and am more likely to be inviting a road rage incident.

 

[barkley]

so does anyone else enjoy watching a&e 'road wars'?

 

[georgina]

Definitely Florida. The older the driver, the more privileged they think they are. Having said that, thankfully Florida has traffic enforcement unlike some of these other defund states.

Which states are those? Numbers, please?

Just looked myself and found this -

https://insurify.com/car-insurance/insights/states-most-heavily-enforced-traffic-laws/

Florida is on the low end of enforcement according to this site.

 

[mikehn]

Thats from 2021

 

[SpaceMan5]

so does anyone else enjoy watching a&e 'road wars'?

Didn't know that was a thing, I will have to check it out

 

[barkley]

Didn't know that was a thing, I will have to check it out

road wars, customer wars, neighborhood wars (and at christmas 'holiday wars')-

the advent and more common use of dashboard and motorcycle helmet cams provide a wealth of footage that demonstrates how nuts/dangerous some drivers are. i will caution that it is incredibly frustrating to repeatedly hear how minor the legal consequences frequently are.

 

[White Cat]

So I accidentally cut off another driver and he told me in no uncertain terms that I was "number one" in his book. I responded with what I felt was an apology wave, raising my hand slowly with a minimal wave. He pulled up next to me at the light, I didn't look over because I felt that would be poking the bear. He ended up turning left and honked his horn at me.

So wwyd in that situation?
Do what I did?
Ignore the other driver all together?
Shoot a nasty look him?
etc, etc

And on the flip side, what do you do when another driver cuts you off?
Let the bird fly?
Honk, flash your lights?
Don't do anything and just continue on your merry way?
Speed up and cut them off?
etc, etc

Me personally, I disengage on both fronts. The consequences are too great.

I don’t see what happened to you as a big deal.

 

[SpaceMan5]

I don’t see what happened to you as a big deal.

I didn't think so either. I just stated what I did and the reason for it. I really wanted to see what others would have done if they cut someone off or if someone did it to them.

 

[aprilgail]

That is FAR from road rage LOL- that is a multiple time daily occurrence here- no big deal.