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Originally Posted by scottmandue
Well, I will be the jerk here... I'm another 30 year Los Angeles veteran... done my share of honking, bird flipping, blocking/cutting off, yelling at other drivers.
Then one day I had this epiphany... you never know who the other person is or what they have been through, maybe they are on the way to the hospital... maybe they just left the hospital and watched a love on die... maybe they are just a A-hole... maybe they are a crack head with a .38 in the glove box... maybe a gang banger with a 9 in his pocket...
Is fighting over a spot in traffic worth dieing over? Not for me... I handed in my vigilante traffic monitor badge and just let people go, and I'm much happier because of it.
Just my two cents.
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^^ this. I was driving to work this week, most the way is on two lane hwy with limited safe passing places when this Lexus comes roaring up behind me and passes across the double yellow. Watched them do this to several cars ahead of me. We get to the bottom of the grade and they get caught in the traffic at the light. We both get on the freeway, the Lexus just a head of me. I catch up to him again on the off-ramp I take into town. He was wearing green hospital scrubs, had the big hospital's parking sticker on his bumper and he turned down the street to their parking lot. Late for work or coming in for a medical emergency? Don't know, but made me think a bit about my first impressions of him.