Re:“I will slaughter you”
by zoomablemind on Friday February 19, 2021 @10:15AM
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> ...and shouted "fuck off you pissy little cunt" to me.
There's a name for this incident - "road rage". Very real and dangerous indeed.
People get completely irrational and agitated. Probably due to effect of being locked up, in a way, non-free inside their cars.
When I'm biking, at times I too get mad at some careless and obnoxious drivers encroaching my freedom, I guess they may be finding me just as annoying for simply missing the fatter wheels and a comparable scale on the shared road. Irrational!
As cyclists we are literally more exposed on the road. So whenever such inevitable bout of irrational fury pops, I find the safest option for myself is to steam-off using similar vocabulary. It's more efficient than reasoning with the unreasonable.
Just to be even safer, I'd let the offending four-wheeled furia be gone before naming the whole piece of that motorized content in precisely spoken choice of words...
There's a name for this incident - "road rage". Very real and dangerous indeed.
People get completely irrational and agitated. Probably due to effect of being locked up, in a way, non-free inside their cars.
When I'm biking, at times I too get mad at some careless and obnoxious drivers encroaching my freedom, I guess they may be finding me just as annoying for simply missing the fatter wheels and a comparable scale on the shared road. Irrational!
As cyclists we are literally more exposed on the road. So whenever such inevitable bout of irrational fury pops, I find the safest option for myself is to steam-off using similar vocabulary. It's more efficient than reasoning with the unreasonable.
Just to be even safer, I'd let the offending four-wheeled furia be gone before naming the whole piece of that motorized content in precisely spoken choice of words...
It takes practice though. Be safe!