Hell on Wheels: Is there no end to the stream of traffic insults?

[marmar]

from the Seattle Times:




Hell on Wheels: Is there no end to the stream of traffic insults?
Even though traffic levels are generally down because of the recession, our streets feel meaner. Faster-paced lifestyles, angst about the economy, more distractions, less civility, a glut of downtown paving projects — it all adds up to more bile for many of us.

By Bob Young


EVERYONE'S GIVING me the finger.

Driving or walking, doesn't seem to matter. Men and women, they're both putting the "ass" back in passive-aggressive.

The collective rise in blood pressure plays out in all kinds of ways: A neurosurgeon clubs another driver with a metal thermos; the head of the Cascade Bicycle Club gets fired, in part, for not leashing his bulldog lobbyist; one of my editors stalks a guy who cut her off and hectors him in a grocery store.

Even though traffic levels are generally down because of the recession, our streets feel meaner. Faster-paced lifestyles, angst about the economy, more distractions, less civility, a glut of downtown paving projects — it all adds up to more bile for many of us. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw/2014111917_pacificproadrage13.html

[Liberal Veteran]

1. Hey, asshole! Move the fuck out of the way, I'm late for church!

:P

[aquart]

2. Yes. Tax the rich. Get money to create jobs and repair infrastructure.

Everything gets better for everyone IF we tax the rich.

[notesdev]

3. Well, Bob...

maybe if you learned to fucking drive you wouldn't have this problem :evilgrin:

[Sonoman]

4. I collect cars.

Every time I take out one of my Benz (whether classic or new) I get a highly elevated level of shit from other drivers. So many drivers act like Mercedes owners feel some kind of entitlement. They will actually say it to my face.

I can drive a '36 Packard Phaeton and women blow kisses and guys are waving at me.

I drive my daily driver - a '90 560 SEL - and people fuck with me. Four-way stops, cutting in front of me on the freeway, everything.

The Packard is worth at least $150K, the Benz is probably not worth the money I spent to have it painted.

Figure that shit out.

Sonoman

[azureblue]

5. When my wife & I

finally left Los Angeles, she could throw traffic curses in four languages...