Road Rage

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Road Rage "You B*TCH!!" BOOM! Another accident due to road rage. "When I'm behind the wheel, the words just seem to fly right out of my mouth", says Rogert Mummert in his article "Putting my Driving in Freud's Lap" written in the New York Times. I find myself doing the same thing. I curse at a woman for cutting inches in front of me without signaling. Whew! That was another close call. "Did you not see my signal, punk??" I cry out as a man almost crashes into me and then decides to honk shouting it was my fault. "Get off your phone you idiot!" I say underneath my breath to a man in his Lexus RX300 SUV in front of me, who thinks that he can drive really slow and back up intersections so no one can complain about him driving one handed chatting on a cell phone. Not innocent myself, I too fall in the category of those drivers suffering from the common disease called Road Rage. Once I get behind the wheel of my '87 Chevy Blazer, all common sense is suspended and I know I will blend in and drive like those maniacs out there that I hate and hypocritically criticize for cutting me off. To some relief, I don't drive like my dad, who will one day cause an accident because of his attitude towards safe driving. He drives 10 miles below the speed limit, and it drives me, my sisters, and other drivers mad. It's people like him that are one of the causes of road rage. Others causes would be people using their cell phones while driving, senior drivers, distracted drivers, and drivers who snake through traffic like speed devils. Cell phones are a big problem for drivers of today's world. If you have a cell phone, you would not be able to leave home without it. I knew a person who was on the freeway for ten minutes when she realized she had forgotten her cell phone at home. She went back and got her cell phone only to find herself late to work.

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