Dealing with road rage: How do you handle it?

Last week I was driving home from work when I found myself stopped at an intersection turning left. The guy behind me started honking like mad even though there was no possible way for me to move my car due to the high level of traffic in front of me.

He then decided he could squeeze by me and floored his car, nearly scraping the side of mine, and almost causing an accident in the intersection from the oncoming traffic.

At first I thought he must be having some kind of emergency.......possibly he needed to go to the bathroom, or there was something really important happening that he had to get to right away.

However, when I actually pulled up next to him I found him simply listening to music and talking on his phone. He had absolutely no reason to honk like crazy and then illegally pass me in the intersection.

He nearly caused two incoming cars to crash as well and yet he was just completely oblivious to it.

I found myself thinking unpleasant thoughts about him as I drove away.

It's not surprising though to see this kind of behavior on the road because everyone seems to think the world revolves around them.

When you're in control of a giant machine that is capable of mowing people down I guess it's easy to forget that everyone is a human being with thoughts, emotions, and feelings and that no one is better than anyone else.

For some people anyway.

I had nearly forgotten about this incident until earlier today. I was turning left into a construction zone that was blocked off by orange cones. There was only one open lane instead of three so you had to be careful driving through here.

As I turned into the one lane there was no one coming....... but then a person pulled out from the other side of the street and floored his car straight at me.

I assumed he would wait for me since I had the right of way but instead he held his horn down and just plowed right through.

If I hadn't hit my brakes very quickly he would have rammed right into me. I took a close look at him and he just seemed to be enjoying himself and talking to his friend.

Both of these fellows seemed to have a very brief instance of road rage in which they decided they were King of the Road and that no one else mattered.

I'm not sure if there's some sort of flaw in the way people think nowadays, but I see feel like I see these types of drivers all the time now.

Road rage is tough to get around. How do you handle it?

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