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Urbana, Illinois, United States
Thirty-one-year-old gay guy blogging for blog's sake.

2008-07-31

Mr. Impatient Goes to School.

People need to get a fucking grip.

I'm driving to Parkland College today, and some impatient fuck tail-gated me. I would like to point out I was driving five miles above the speed limit. Apparently, that was not fast enough. I'm driving in Champaign, Illinois, I turn off of South Country Fair Drive onto Bradly Avenue, and the driver in the red car passed me on the left while yelling at me through his driver-side window. I couldn't hear what he was saying simply because the traffic muffled his words. But whatever.

I'm not surprised I encountered an impatient driver; I come across them everyday I drive, but the circumstances still bothered me. The time was 10:30am, and I was on South Country Fair Drive, which is a road I use to bypass most of the traffic on Bradly, and this red car was right on my ass. Since the time was in the middle of an hour, I don't understand why Road Rage was so angry. Classes at Parkland start at the top of the hour, so even if he was late by thirty minutes, driving wildly would not enable him to be less late than he already was. If you are late by five minutes or by thirty minutes you are late.

I have to wonder what is wrong with people that experience road rage. Do they realize they are operating a piece of hardware that weighs at least 2000 pounds? Do they realize that the energies contained in heavy objects traveling at "slow" speeds is still enough to do serious damage to other drivers, property, and themselves? No. They don't realize this. They only care about getting home or to work as quickly as possible. They have to get there NOW regardless of the fact that they are not the only ones on the road.

Driving simply is not worth the aggravation of dealing with other people and their impatient attitudes. I am seriously considering buying a season bus pass in the near future because of the stress I feel while driving. I've already been in one accident that was not my fault, and it was not a very positive experience. It was horrifying. It was confusing.

Come on, people. Drive defensively.

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