All Posts Tagged With: "road rage"

As a follow-up to my post a couple of days about about my “not-so-excellent adventure” during my morning commute on Wednesday, I was taken aback a bit by a comment by a reader on another blog. Oklahoma’s iconic blog dustbury linked to my post, under the much better headline “Duel on the Broadway Extension,” which led to comments on his blog and quite a few new visitors to my blog — thank you, Mr. Hill!

While I’m not immune or even adverse to critical comments, one particular commenter’s remarks caught me by surprise. Apparently, I wasn’t the victim of road rage, but rather than instigator of an understandable reaction by another driver that I egregiously inconvenienced. You see, from this commenter’s viewpoint, I was asking for it… Continued

Let me first say that I hate traffic. My blood pressure has to jump by more than 25 points automatically when hitting rush hour traffic — and that’s before I encounter the inevitable idiots, morons and just-plain-mean drivers. This morning’s commute proved to be much more “exciting” than I ever wanted … and not the good kind of excitement, but rather the heart-pounding, adrenaline-rushing, gut-wrenching, fear-filled kind of excitement. By the time I got out of my car when I arrived downtown, I felt completely drained and my stomach still churning in knots. Continued