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[quote=Anonymous]Yes.

Since this is anonymous, I will admit that when I was confronted by a road raging witch on the road a few months ago, while I started out trying to respond with reason and kindness I quickly found myself screaming the same four letter expletive at her over and over when she wouldn’t stop screaming at me for being stuck in the same bumper to bumper traffic jam that I was.

Her reason for screaming at me in the first place? A bumper sticker on my car which says ‘it isn’t nice to tailgate.’ She seemed to think I was a hypocrite for not leaving two car lengths between me and the car in front in a stopped dead bumper to bumper traffic jam.

I had let several cars ahead of me and she was behind me but apparently got enraged looking at my sticker and so when the congestion broke up she drove up next to me at a stop light and started screaming.

It was scary to realize how easy it became to tap into my own screaming harpy, but I honestly got the feeling she was somebody who wouldn’t go away unless I brought on more crazy than she was bringing.

I hate driving anymore because where I live people are super tense, always distracted and speeding and aggressive- I have the sticker because I’ve been tailgated so much and I’ve found that in some cases it seems like the sticker makes tailgaters enraged. Like you’re calling them out and they have to attack you for it.

Road rage is real and there’s a lot of it. I’m honestly much more of a homebody than I used to be because I am fearful of other drivers.[/quote]

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