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Hello to all my readers!
Driving yourself to distraction
Many years ago, I fit into the category of individuals who give themselves minor emotional fits when they are driving in traffic. I know people who verbalize near-obscenities( or worse 0 at traffic lights which change at the wrong time, or at other drivers who do wrong things like pulling in front of them or cutting them off. When they were about to be late they hit, with equal force, the brake, the gas pedal, and the horn.
It doesn't seem to have a lot to do with how important it is that they didn't get started on time. Behind the steering wheel, all vengeance is meted out with equal fury. After this emotional driving style becomes a habit, these otherwise fine individuals get so used to driving with stress that they clutch the steering wheel with the same Indianapolis %00 grip when they aren't late for anything or when they are going nowhere in particular.
A friend of mine-the owner of a sucessful business in the Los Angeles area- is, in his normal waking state, one of the coolest, most staid individuals I have ever met. He is always kind, considerate, deferential, and understanding- except when he is trying to cross lanes on the los Angeles freeway and someone unwittingly pulls their vehicle in front of him.
My basic belief in the goodness of humanity tells me that the young man driving the second-hand car who pulls into the wrong position in front of my friend's late model foreign import on the freeway is probably an okay person. If he only knew what adjectives had just been expleted on his behalf! And then, moments later, my friend is once again his cool, calm, caring and collected self. That is,until the next unfortunate soul steers his car in the wrong direction, and my friend once again unleashes a torrent of temper at the unsuspecting driver of the other vehicle.
Buonasera!