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Eddie Bronze · 05-04-2007, 09:25 PM

You guys should have seen the recent Fifth Estate special on road rage. Some very scary stuff going on on the roads here in North America.

I have no personal experiences of road rage where I was the one experiencing the rage. Some of the stories on here are very foreign to me, and I do drive in the city every day. I never had someone give me the finger, never gave anyone the finger. I never had someone get out of their car, nor never got out myself. I never had someone yell at me, never yelled at anyone. I've been cut-off plenty of times and may have done it a couple times myself, never on purpose though. The Number 2 highway scares the living s*** out of me but I never experienced road rage, just pure terror.

I did have an experience where a girl wanted into the lane I was in but there never was a blinker for me to know this. Once I realized it I let her in and clearly she was road raged at me. But if her blinker isn't working or she's too dumb to put it on, you may want to direct your rage at someone else.

I had another guy cut me off on Crowchild. I had a clearly open lane to merge into and he went across three lanes in one motion to cut me off. I saw him glaring at me as he went up the exit for Shaganappi but I'll never know what his problem was. Good thing I have good brakes I guess.

I've been cut-off plenty of times and may have done it a couple times myself, never on purpose though. The Number 2 highway scares the living s*** out of me but I never experienced road rage, just pure terror. I did have a young group of guys wait for me to challenge me to race their beater, "Race me!!!!!!!!" they yelled over and over as they got in their car, but they (wisely) bailed.

My biggest gripe is probably people who don't merge properly. You come out onto the Number One or Crowchild going 60 into a 80 or 90 zone? That has accident written all over it. I really don't know what to do there. You're stuck behind them. Should I blow my horn at them? People are either way too scared behind the wheel or way too assertive. I see the mistakes and try hard not to make the same ones myself. I think a lot of people just simply do not understand the rules of the road and/or need to start paying way better attention to what they are doing. I just try to avoid them by doing what I feel is safest in any given situation.

05-04-2007, 09:25 PM	#26
Eddie Bronze Franchise Player Join Date: Aug 2004 Exp:	You guys should have seen the recent Fifth Estate special on road rage. Some very scary stuff going on on the roads here in North America. I have no personal experiences of road rage where I was the one experiencing the rage. Some of the stories on here are very foreign to me, and I do drive in the city every day. I never had someone give me the finger, never gave anyone the finger. I never had someone get out of their car, nor never got out myself. I never had someone yell at me, never yelled at anyone. I've been cut-off plenty of times and may have done it a couple times myself, never on purpose though. The Number 2 highway scares the living s* out of me but I never experienced road rage, just pure terror. I did have an experience where a girl wanted into the lane I was in but there never was a blinker for me to know this. Once I realized it I let her in and clearly she was road raged at me. But if her blinker isn't working or she's too dumb to put it on, you may want to direct your rage at someone else. I had another guy cut me off on Crowchild. I had a clearly open lane to merge into and he went across three lanes in one motion to cut me off. I saw him glaring at me as he went up the exit for Shaganappi but I'll never know what his problem was. Good thing I have good brakes I guess. I've been cut-off plenty of times and may have done it a couple times myself, never on purpose though. The Number 2 highway scares the living s* out of me but I never experienced road rage, just pure terror. I did have a young group of guys wait for me to challenge me to race their beater, "Race me!!!!!!!!" they yelled over and over as they got in their car, but they (wisely) bailed. My biggest gripe is probably people who don't merge properly. You come out onto the Number One or Crowchild going 60 into a 80 or 90 zone? That has accident written all over it. I really don't know what to do there. You're stuck behind them. Should I blow my horn at them? People are either way too scared behind the wheel or way too assertive. I see the mistakes and try hard not to make the same ones myself. I think a lot of people just simply do not understand the rules of the road and/or need to start paying way better attention to what they are doing. I just try to avoid them by doing what I feel is safest in any given situation.