COMMENT The enraged gristle of humanity behind the wheel opposite me wasn’t in a traffic jam. There was no pressure around him. But perhaps boiling within him there was ...
I was waiting to turn right at traffic lights. A car opposite was waiting to turn left onto the same road. The driver just had to wait for a pedestrian to walk across the road.
To me it looked and sounded threatening. To the target, it's possible the sound in his earplugs stifled the abuse to a snuffle.Were it not such a busy road I'm sure the angry one would have been out of the car and what I would have witnessed would have been on the TV news as yet another example of road rage.It was, really, just a matter of seconds. But this is enough these days to turn impatience into manic expression.
Former Police Assistant Commissioner Doug Fryer once said road rage was "absolutely frightening. It's a problem any time anyone loses their cool when they're sitting in two tonnes of steel".Why should this be so? Why the rage? Is it simply the equation that more people x more cars x more congestion=more anger?
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