Rage Against the Machine!!!! (Road Rage)

Member Name: Epiphany

Product:	Road Rage
Date:	07/02/01 (35 review reads)
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Advantages: Getting mad is better than getting even

Disadvantages: Ulcers, although can't these be caused from bottling things up?

THE CAUSE

O.K. Here’s how it is. I’m one of these people who hates not moving. I can’t bare to be in a stuffy car in the height of summer (or any other time) going nowhere. It irritates me, and it’s one of many irritations. I used to spend a lot of my time driving to and from University, and in a lot of ways repetitive journeys requiring you to be at a certain place at a certain time are huge causes of stress and ultimately rage on the road. (By this I mean general maddening stress rather than violent behaviour directed towards oneself, some one else or random objects in the locality).

Other sources of rage and stress come from the following (for me at least). We can all recognise these drivers… those who leave half a mile stopping distance between them and the car in front, and yet they still feel the need to make an emergency stop if the brake light of the car in front even flickers for a moment. Then there are those people who are incapable of indicating. Instead they make you guess when they are going to turn off performing their well-rehearsed ‘I am going to slow down to the point of almost stopping about five meters before the turning thus almost causing an accident’ manoeuvre. Only seconded to the annoying behaviour of drivers who insist at driving everywhere at 40 mph (yes, even in a 30 mph speed limit) are those who drive at 40 mph and then reach super sonic speeds as soon as there is an overtaking opportunity. *SCREAMS*

These are just some of things that make me mad, justly or unjustly and I’m sure everyone out there can either sympathise with me or laugh about this matter.

THE SOLUTION

Here are my suggestions for solving rage related issues on the road… play music where you can scream lyrics so you release pent up tension (Rage Against the Machine is a good one, but it doesn’t have to be heavy), listen to relaxing music (Dido or Savage Garden are my
recommendations), drive around when there is no-one else on the road (fantastic!) or finally.... Don’t drive at all. For those people who cannot keep a lid on their tempers, just avoid your car. A word of warning, don’t try travelling by bus or train because you will probably find your tension coming back when you are late for work everyday for a month!

My personal saviour was graduating and finding a flat near to my new job thus saving me from one and a half hour round trips everyday. I can actually begin to enjoy driving and don’t get nearly so hot under the collar any more!

There is one final way to reduce stress: Write it all down at DooYoo.

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