[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=svelte][quote=scaredyclassic]i never experience road rage. i think of other cars as meteors, unthinking blobs in lifes video game.[/quote]
I’m gonna borrow this…
Great idea scaredy.[/quote]
Me too.
That’s very zen. I don’t have road rage either. I’m very courteous and yield a lot these days. If first at the stop light, i would move to the middle lane to let people turn right on red.[/quote]
i didnt make this up, i read it somewhere. but it always stuck with me. depersonalizing other cars seems useful in terms of managing emotion. i had a friend who really used to get angry at everyone on the road, everything was a personal affront.
it once got him in a bit of trouble. this type of thinking is not helpful toward the aim of driving, which is basically to move your vehicle across space without it occupying the same coordinates as any other vehicle at the same time. its more of a math problem than an interpersonal thing.
When you consider the average person out there it is kinda scary driving. 38 years of driving with no major (injury) accidents to me is just dumb luck on my part. Anytime you are driving down an undivided road you are at the mercy of a stranger going the other way. I try not to think about that reality though, otherwise I would be scared to drive.
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