This is going to be one of those days. I think self fullfilling prophecy is at hand so I probably deserve it. I was commuting with all the other bone heads this a.m. - something I don't normally do in my line of work. It amazes me how rude and brainless people can be. Anyway, after 30 minutes (Yeah, but this is Milwaukee!) it's starting to wear on me a bit. This asshat merges, or I should say barges, on the highway from an entrance ramp in front of me after cruising the shoulder past a bunch of cars. Okay. Just another moron. No big deal. After awhile I find myself in the left lane cruising along nicely past those going slower on the right. Who should I come up on? The asshat. He's in the right lane and I
know he's going to cut me off. Bear in mind that I'm going about 10 mph faster than he is and I'm just about overlapping him when he does just that, signals
while moving into my lane. I guess that makes it okay! Well, any other day I would have slammed on my brakes and shrugged it off. For whatever reason, today instead of braking, I mashed on the gas and moved over. I didn't swerve over onto the shoulder, I just moved as he moved. In doing so, as went by him, we clicked mirrors. Nothing big and not necessarily intentional on my part, but not unwelcome either. It felt good to check him a bit. Oddly enough nothing escalated. He backed way off, probably thinking I'm insane, and I felt no further need to antagonize him. He seemed to show a little more respect the rest of the time also, so maybe I actually did some good.
I know it was stupid. I won't do it again (probably
). Is that the way it is for everyone? I can't imagine doing that everyday.