I've toned it down a bit. Usually I just mutter about their parentage and lack of manners these days. I was bad about it years ago. One day I read something in Reader's Digest, and learned a new acronym. FIDO! Forget it, Drive ON! Helps that my wife tells me to consider them brainless guppies. Guppies aren't responsible for their behavior, they just do what they do. Probably also helps that I'm retired now, and don't usually have to be any specific place at any specific time now, for myself. My kids aren't going to starve if I don't get to work on-time and get fired anymore.It may be more like a condition, or even a disorder. Regardless, I really do think I may need professional help.
For those that know me, I am the epitome of a gentle giant. I'm 6'3", weigh in around four bills, love my wife, love my daughters, love my grandsons, basically everyone. I'm a born again God fearing Christian, washed in the blood, raised as a southern Baptist. I try to have a calm demeanor and I'm very open minded as well as forgiving.
However...
All that bullsh!t goes down the drain whenever I climb behind the wheel of a car. Somehow, this dark, evil, demonic sonovabitch rears his ugly head and I scream and curse and yell at people who don't know the rules of the road, no more than they know their head from a hole in the ground. I don't know if most people just have their head up their ass, or if they genuinely do not know the rules of the road.
And I'm talking just simple stuff...sitting a red a red light with their right turn signal on, waiting for a green light...not passing the school bus on a 4 lane road after the bus's red lights and stop sign is turned off...sitting at a 4-way stop when they are clearly the one on the right, and next to go, but they sit there and stare at you. And don't EVEN get me started on the whole texting at the stop light, or worse, while driving thang. Hell, I saw a guy reading a book while driving one time! What the hell?
Anyways...am I the only one that screams and yells at people like a ING banshee on the road? I haven't chased anybody down and threatened bodily harm (yet) so maybe I'm not too far gone. But yeah, I could probably use some time on the couch.
Thank you for allowing me to rant.