by cmsellers » Fri May 11, 2018 7:25 am
The very start of my trip to Houston yesterday, while still in Austin, induced the first incident of road rage I've ever experienced.
The light turned yellow, so I slowed down (I have a bad habit of not running yellows in a city where everyone else seems to run them) and a car from the other lane cut right in front of me. I was startled, but I'm used to people in Austin cutting me off and I was already slowing down anyways because of the light.
Not only did I not think much of it, but I was initially sympathetic to the car who cut me off. This is one of those right turn/straight combo lanes, and it's really annoying when there's one car in front of you going straight at a red light, preventing a right turn.
Then I realized, "wait a minute, they're not turning right." And I, you see, was turning right, and I get stuck behind that one person who's not turning right a lot, but that was the first time it had happened because some asshole took me not running the yellow as an invitation to cut me off.
At that point I lost it. I beeped my horn and gave them the finger. Not a good idea in a state that allows open carry, but I finally understand how people get road rage.