One thing I've noticed recently is a huge increase in road rage incidents around me.
I have an hour long commute to work and for the past three years it has been pretty peaceful. You get someone a tad angry every once in a while, but nothing like I've seen in the last six months.
Two guys on the highway the other day got so mad at each other that they were taking turns brake checking each other. One would get ahead, pull in front and slam on their brakes, then that guy would fly around him and do the same thing.
Then the other day I saw two guys get so mad at each other that they were playing sideswipe chicken with each other. Like literally swerving at the side of each other while screaming out the windows and making hand gestures and driving 80 mph down the highway.
This is the kind of behavior you might see once a year where I live if you're extremely unlucky. But in the past six months, I've been seeing driving behavior like the above two examples at least once a week.
I'm personally not appending any one specific cause to what I've observed. All I'm saying is that people out there on the roads, at least where I live, are mega fucking pissed right now and one way they are letting out their anger is with road rage incidents.
When they said the serving jab would come 28 days later I made a meme to this effect in November of last year... *starts digging through piles of files * oh darn where did it go... hehehehe not one I was hoping would ring true.
We are witnessing an increase in anger and aggression. Let's hope it levels off and decreases soon, but if it continues to escalate without limit.... 28 days later.
I've noticed that too; a lot of people driving poorly. Twice in the last month, I was merging onto the interstate when a guy in the right-hand lane played chicken and refused to let me on. I had to break to 30 mph to get on a freeway after running out of the lane to merge on. The guys shutting me out, both times, had no one in the left-hand lane so they could have just switched lanes to make room for me. Didn't do it.
Another time, a guy was behind me as we were both merging. He cut in front of me but didn't accelerate fast enough so he was cutting me out while I ran out of merging room. Almost ran me off of the road.
I think the quarantine cause people to forget how to drive or interact with others.
When I left the office this late afternoon I literally saw 3 near accidents one of which was a FedEx driver that almost sidestwipped me...thank God for the shoulder. Accidents aren't really that uncommon in Houston, but 3 in the span of about 60 seconds all due to stupidity or being pissed????
One thing I've noticed recently is a huge increase in road rage incidents around me.
I have an hour long commute to work and for the past three years it has been pretty peaceful. You get someone a tad angry every once in a while, but nothing like I've seen in the last six months.
Two guys on the highway the other day got so mad at each other that they were taking turns brake checking each other. One would get ahead, pull in front and slam on their brakes, then that guy would fly around him and do the same thing.
Then the other day I saw two guys get so mad at each other that they were playing sideswipe chicken with each other. Like literally swerving at the side of each other while screaming out the windows and making hand gestures and driving 80 mph down the highway.
This is the kind of behavior you might see once a year where I live if you're extremely unlucky. But in the past six months, I've been seeing driving behavior like the above two examples at least once a week.
People out there right now are fucking angry.
I'm personally not appending any one specific cause to what I've observed. All I'm saying is that people out there on the roads, at least where I live, are mega fucking pissed right now and one way they are letting out their anger is with road rage incidents.
Could be because of emotional / psychological issues caused by the lockdowns and financial problems too.
When they said the serving jab would come 28 days later I made a meme to this effect in November of last year... *starts digging through piles of files * oh darn where did it go... hehehehe not one I was hoping would ring true.
I’m in America, this sounds like a good time.
Literal zombies now
We are witnessing an increase in anger and aggression. Let's hope it levels off and decreases soon, but if it continues to escalate without limit.... 28 days later.
I've noticed that too; a lot of people driving poorly. Twice in the last month, I was merging onto the interstate when a guy in the right-hand lane played chicken and refused to let me on. I had to break to 30 mph to get on a freeway after running out of the lane to merge on. The guys shutting me out, both times, had no one in the left-hand lane so they could have just switched lanes to make room for me. Didn't do it.
Another time, a guy was behind me as we were both merging. He cut in front of me but didn't accelerate fast enough so he was cutting me out while I ran out of merging room. Almost ran me off of the road.
I think the quarantine cause people to forget how to drive or interact with others.
Now that you mention it, it does seem there are a lot more stories about road rage. Very odd.
When I left the office this late afternoon I literally saw 3 near accidents one of which was a FedEx driver that almost sidestwipped me...thank God for the shoulder. Accidents aren't really that uncommon in Houston, but 3 in the span of about 60 seconds all due to stupidity or being pissed????
Yes, we are also very polarized as a nation right now and people are at their limits..