Travelling around helped me realize how it just seems to be part of North American culture. The amount of wild stuff I've seen on the road in Europe and South America, and the party it happens to barely bats an eye. Then you see it happen over here, and the person it happened to acts like the offending party called their mother a terrible word in front of both them and their mom.
We just seem to take minor road offences SO personally...it's weird. Witnessing driving in other countries (outside of the U.S.) really helped me relax in this regard and not take it so personally, that stuff is embarrassing.
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