All the Rage
July 9th 2008 04:57
It's everywhere in this town. Just yesterday, while I was driving through, I saw two cars stopped at the middle of Taren Point bridge - with a man walking out from one looking ready to throw the other driver over the bridge.
Around Bondi way, it is more often than not limited to the European luxury car drivers and those big 4WD's. One may note that the big cars often limit their road rage to suttle cut-offs and tail-blazing, if only for the fact that they feel bigger and stronger just by being behind the drivers seat.
As for the money-burning, rather than fuel-burning (I'm kinda glad both are the same now), the Euro luxury guys tend to attack at will and on a whim. Their cars let you know that their egos are in full control and expect everything to go their way. If it doesn't, there'll be hell to pay.
The typical example would be where a Mercedes-Benz gets cut-off by a public bus, which is perfectly legal (on paper) and most drivers understand that we've got to give way to buses on the road. But the yuppy behind the wheel will most likely overtake the bus, just to stop in front of it, then get out of the car and attempt to seriously damage either the bus driver or the bus itself.
Such is life in the fast lane.
My father has had a situation where he was threatened by some other family man who didn't look happy about his wife not given special right to overtake us at a busy intersection. It is thinking back to times like this when I wonder how I would react in a similar situation.
I certainly wouldn't be the one to think I own the road and can threaten/beat up whosoever thinks otherwise. Call it my relaxed personality. But if a man cornered me, got out of his car all in a rage and attempted something stupid... well, I would be inclined to be a vigilante and make my own attempt at making an example for these road ragers to take note of. Call it a sense of social justice.
And maybe give them some samba or classical music to assist in their anger management.
Isn't it a shame that we are forced to such ideas when the powers that be don't bother to do otherwise? The current governing parliamentarians seem to be the type of people to do the road rage do in their own right. Picture Belinda Neal jumping out of her car, shaking her fist, and screaming "Don't you know who I am?!??!" after being overtaken by a bus changing lanes. You could almost say their attitude to governance encourages it.
If you're reading this, please, don't be a product of the violence and attitudes prevalent today. You deserve better.
Around Bondi way, it is more often than not limited to the European luxury car drivers and those big 4WD's. One may note that the big cars often limit their road rage to suttle cut-offs and tail-blazing, if only for the fact that they feel bigger and stronger just by being behind the drivers seat.
As for the money-burning, rather than fuel-burning (I'm kinda glad both are the same now), the Euro luxury guys tend to attack at will and on a whim. Their cars let you know that their egos are in full control and expect everything to go their way. If it doesn't, there'll be hell to pay.
The typical example would be where a Mercedes-Benz gets cut-off by a public bus, which is perfectly legal (on paper) and most drivers understand that we've got to give way to buses on the road. But the yuppy behind the wheel will most likely overtake the bus, just to stop in front of it, then get out of the car and attempt to seriously damage either the bus driver or the bus itself.
Such is life in the fast lane.
My father has had a situation where he was threatened by some other family man who didn't look happy about his wife not given special right to overtake us at a busy intersection. It is thinking back to times like this when I wonder how I would react in a similar situation.
I certainly wouldn't be the one to think I own the road and can threaten/beat up whosoever thinks otherwise. Call it my relaxed personality. But if a man cornered me, got out of his car all in a rage and attempted something stupid... well, I would be inclined to be a vigilante and make my own attempt at making an example for these road ragers to take note of. Call it a sense of social justice.
And maybe give them some samba or classical music to assist in their anger management.
Isn't it a shame that we are forced to such ideas when the powers that be don't bother to do otherwise? The current governing parliamentarians seem to be the type of people to do the road rage do in their own right. Picture Belinda Neal jumping out of her car, shaking her fist, and screaming "Don't you know who I am?!??!" after being overtaken by a bus changing lanes. You could almost say their attitude to governance encourages it.
If you're reading this, please, don't be a product of the violence and attitudes prevalent today. You deserve better.
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