Over the years my rage control has improved..dramatically. I still will rage...but usually just to myself and anyone near enough to hear it.
But over the years I have experienced some pretty entertaining stories (now that they are long past) regarding the idiots that we share our roads with.
First story:
THE RULES OF THE ROUNDABOUT
Now this one happened to me here in WA. Way back when we were living just off a street in the same area we now live in...called Grandview. They had just put a round-a-bout in (probably 98-99 era) and one day I was heading home...driving south on Grandview. At the round-a-bout I had a vehicle coming up on the left...and as I was at the intersection first...and had no vehicles to 'yield' to..I continued on through.
Lo and behold some dumb ass broad (who was in a vehicle approaching from the left) follows me home...(which wasn't more than a mile further) pulls in to my parking lot...and as I get out begins to berate me on 'the rules of the roundabout'....Now..anyone who knows me well.....knows that I do virtually nothing in life without having some very strong opinions to back it...or knowledge...as was this case.
This women tried to tell me that I was supposed to stop....(as if a round-a-bout was a 4way or something) and wait for traffic to take turns.
I laid into her in my classic...'my name is jon and don't you DARE tell me what to do attitude)...but basically covered the ground with...'then why the hell are there yield signs?" to which she had no answer..then I proceeded to explain to her how a round-a-bout truly worked and recommended that she get a drivers handbook before she followed people home again to berate them when she herself had no clue. She really didn't say much after that and drove away...stupid woman.
Now the funnierist part...she was in my ward. I don't think she even recognized me cause the next Sunday I pointed her out to elmoe at church as the women who felt obligated to pass on the rules of the round-a-bout. I have told many friends this..and they now fondly refer to it as the 'rules of the round-a-bout story'
Now..I may choose a rage on my end next time. Be scared..be very scared.
