Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hound.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!hound!551rcg From: 551rcg@hound.UUCP (R.GANNS) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: bad drivers Message-ID: <833@hound.UUCP> Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 12:17:54 EST Article-I.D.: hound.833 Posted: Tue Jan 15 12:17:54 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 05:07:28 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 27 There are two major challenges posed by rude/incompetent drivers: 1. to avoid being involved in an accident because of them; 2. to avoid becoming one of them. It is not always clear which of the two is the more difficult. The only smart thing to do when confronted with such a driver is to put distance between you and them--usually by letting them get ahead of you (--oh, my aching ego!) If you insist on locking horns with them, you have just failed challenge number two, and are well on your way to failing challenge number one. What makes all of this even more difficult to deal with is that it seems like these encounters usually occur when we are not at our best--early in the morning when we are sleepy, cranky, etc., and late in the day when we are burned out, P.O.'d by work, tired, etc. One way to avoid having bad drivers piss you off is to try to imagine some possible reason for why the guy did what he did--that it was nothing personal, that the guy just made a mistake-- maybe his wife just died, maybe he/she just lost their job; the key is not to react emotionally. Treat bad drivers with great care--they can kill you.