Ragin Roads

So what the hell is up with road rage? I just don't understand what comes over people, or me for that matter. Usually I'm pretty good about containing it, but sometimes the rudeness of people just gets to me and I want to beat the shit out of the person in the next car.

Today, I was driving and came to a stop, turning right. Well the idiot turning left pulled up and blocked my view so I couldn't see the oncomming traffic. This actually pissed me off so bad that I yelled out my window "I can't see the fucking traffic around your fat ass SUV!" Her window was cracked so I'm half positive she actually heard me. Usually I keep these spurts of rage inside my vehicle because the windows are up; however, this being summer I suppose everyone is now subject to my ranting and raging.

Now, I can understand a little outburst in your car, to yourself or the person riding shotgun (no pun intended) or even the radio. But what I just can't fathom are the people who actually take it so far as to shoot someone, or even drag them out of their vehicle and beat them so senseless that they're in the hospital fighting for their lives.

I don't know any amount of pissed off that would push me to such an action. But then again I've never been in a fist fight. Not that I havn't wanted to, and not that I couldn't fight dirty enough to do some real damage. But to actually act on it is something that has never truly crossed my mind.

I suppose a lot of it has to do with where you grew up, and how you were raised. But is that really an excuse for not being able to exercise self control? And what is it really that causes someone to get so pissed off at being cut off or even passed on the freeway? You're not going to actually get there any slower than a few nanoseconds, if that. And honestly, where the fuck are you going in such a hurry? I suppose there are good answers to the last question; but when you're headed to the grocery store is it really necessacary to cut people off to get their 1 second or even 5 seconds ahead of the rest of the people on the road; who probably aren't even headed to the grocery store?

I suppose these are all questions that are posed for the masses, and more so for the psychologists of the World. I don't suppose we'll have an answer any time soon, because it's not nearly as important as stem cell research, or why a child molester does what they do. But still a question that I think should really be answered soon is "Why are we so angry all the time?"