Road Rage – boys only?

cwh wrote: Here in SoFla, road rage is very dangerous, as we have the best armed drivers in the country. Well, maybe next to Texas.

Texas blows dick as a gun owners state.

i've had my moments, and i've had people get pissed at me before, but the worst ones have been women.

I gotta agree, the worst road rage I have seen is generally from women.

After my divorce, I learned of two instances that my daughter was afraid to mention beforehand. One involved my ex sliding to a stop in the middle of a VERY busy intersection (my kid was ~10 y/o and strapped into the back seat), stomping all 5'3" 115 pounds over to some kid's car and beating on the driver door glass till the light changed. My ex made my daughter promise to never tell me.

Grizz wrote:

cwh wrote: Here in SoFla, road rage is very dangerous, as we have the best armed drivers in the country. Well, maybe next to Texas.

Texas blows dick as a gun owners state.

Don't make me link up to my "Don't road rage in Missouri" thread.

I've been witness to a great deal of female road rage, but it usually originates from the passenger seat of my car.

I have found that driving a minivan with my two kids in the backseat does wonders for curtailing any raging on my part. As a wild and reckless youth, there may have been one or two instances, but they're distant memories now.

I find it awesome that if the roles were reversed and a male journalist had written such a one-sided article, the rabid feminists would be foaming at the mouth.

I don't care who is doing it, E36 M3ty driving is E36 M3ty driving. If you need a good wake-up call, I'm happy to oblige. Hell, we've all been the one doing the poor driving at least once.

My g/f is quite prone to road rage. It's all I can do to keep from laughing sometimes.

People occasionally do stupid things when I'm in the TDi, but I try to mitigate the number by usually driving during off hours. The truck, being much bigger and MUCH uglier, is given a wide berth. Granted, when driving that I'm usually just puttering along in the right lane and maybe doing the speed limit.

Trans_Maro wrote: I find it awesome that if the roles were reversed and a male journalist had written such a one-sided article, the rabid feminists would be foaming at the mouth.

Agreed. But then, it doesn't even come close to matching all those stories about female parking skills.

Lesley wrote: Agreed. But then, it doesn't even come close to matching all those stories about female parking skills.

Chuckle, we have one here at work that just cracks me up, almost every morning. She spends about 5 minutes wandering around the parking lot going backwards trying to back into a parking space. I have never, never, seen a person as inept in reverse as she is. She regularly ends up on the sidewalk, 90 degrees across several spaces, up on the bushes and such.

And, she is equally oblivious to how incredibly bad she is.

My wife has gotten ragey a few times with me riding shotgun. I remind her that if the other person decides to go all psycho, I'm going to be the one getting my ass kicked, not her.

later, matt

I once had a POS turd brown Suburban that had no grill or trim on the front. Just 2 headlights, a radiator and a 2X8 for a front bumper. Nobody, I mean nobody ever pulled out in front that thing.

I don't think I know any one, on either side of the playing field, who actually gets really raged while in traffic. Oh, except this lady:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-buzz/woman-kicks-car-apparent-road-rage-incident-185527314.html

Anyway, back to non-crazy people; driving in Florida, it is pretty easy to get frustrated. I feel like certain people think they can use the entire road at any time at any speed while on a phone, which gets on my nerves. Not because I want to get places quickly, but because I want to get places safely.