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Pixelated
When I started the thread ‘What do you do’, it was my intent in to try to understand why people do the things they do on the road. Perhaps I’m a little naïve in that I didn’t expect a bunch of lecturing about chilling out and such. Now GoherM starts a traffic thread and gets a bunch of lecturing.
I feel kind of compelled to defend myself and say that I am NOT a roadrager. I do not flip out over the annoying things people do; flipping people off that don’t do it the way I do it. The most of my response might be “I can’t believe what that guy just did”. I do things my way, and mostly accept that others do things their way. But I will not deny that a lot of what happens around me on the road annoys me; only from the standpoint of… I don’t want to die because of someone else’s selfishness. I’m sure this annoyance has health risks.
I have a fairly long commute to work (about 40 miles one way). As the years go on I feel it has become, more and more, a life-risking event; and it shouldn’t be this way. For someone that has a family and a job to get food on the table, I shouldn’t have to worry about really selfish people that will do things to risk my life, who is simply trying to get from point A to point B, all because they feel they are more important than everyone else. So, I’ll say, it’s hard to ‘chill out’ with people that don’t give a damn about anyone else; and it’s pretty annoying to be lectured by people that making assumptions about my state of mind when confronted with really bad drivers.
I thought this was a good place to come to vent my concerns about bad drivers in hopes it might cause people to think about what they’re doing (even though the larger part of me knows it won’t). Instead of that happening, posting threads like this only becomes a stomping ground for people that want to do nothing more than lecture others. We get on here a bitch and complain about a plethora of things where, in every instance, someone could say “chill out, life is too short”. Nearly everyone is guilty of ‘flipping out’ on one issue or another; no one is exempt from having health-risking anger-responses to this or that issue. So we all need to chill out.
That all being said............... I have taken the lectures to heart. There are things that bother me that really shouldn’t. At my age I should know better than to let little nitnoid things get the best of me. Life does have far more good things to focus on than bad. So… thank you – those that did – for your lectures and desire for me to look at the brighter side of things. I know it comes in the vein of caring and friendship.
I feel kind of compelled to defend myself and say that I am NOT a roadrager. I do not flip out over the annoying things people do; flipping people off that don’t do it the way I do it. The most of my response might be “I can’t believe what that guy just did”. I do things my way, and mostly accept that others do things their way. But I will not deny that a lot of what happens around me on the road annoys me; only from the standpoint of… I don’t want to die because of someone else’s selfishness. I’m sure this annoyance has health risks.
I have a fairly long commute to work (about 40 miles one way). As the years go on I feel it has become, more and more, a life-risking event; and it shouldn’t be this way. For someone that has a family and a job to get food on the table, I shouldn’t have to worry about really selfish people that will do things to risk my life, who is simply trying to get from point A to point B, all because they feel they are more important than everyone else. So, I’ll say, it’s hard to ‘chill out’ with people that don’t give a damn about anyone else; and it’s pretty annoying to be lectured by people that making assumptions about my state of mind when confronted with really bad drivers.
I thought this was a good place to come to vent my concerns about bad drivers in hopes it might cause people to think about what they’re doing (even though the larger part of me knows it won’t). Instead of that happening, posting threads like this only becomes a stomping ground for people that want to do nothing more than lecture others. We get on here a bitch and complain about a plethora of things where, in every instance, someone could say “chill out, life is too short”. Nearly everyone is guilty of ‘flipping out’ on one issue or another; no one is exempt from having health-risking anger-responses to this or that issue. So we all need to chill out.
That all being said............... I have taken the lectures to heart. There are things that bother me that really shouldn’t. At my age I should know better than to let little nitnoid things get the best of me. Life does have far more good things to focus on than bad. So… thank you – those that did – for your lectures and desire for me to look at the brighter side of things. I know it comes in the vein of caring and friendship.
