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Bad driving is a hard one, because from my experience about 75% of people have at least one unacceptable bad habit when they drive, and not one person on the planet believes that they are a bad driver. Giving gentle advice has never resulted in more than them getting very defensive time and time again. I hear stories from someone I know to be a menace on the road about how some guy cut them off or whatever, and I can’t help but disbelieve their version of events. I truly believe we should have to redo a driving test every few years so people have to confront the illegality of their habits.
I was talking to a work acquaintance last week, and as a conversation starter when I was walking into work I made the statement “Man, aggressive drivers drive me nuts.” He instantly prickled up and got defensive. He started in on a rant about how his girlfriend is afraid of his driving because her reaction speed didn’t match up to his. I’m just standing there thinking “Man, I don’t know if I have the energy or ability to fix this dude.”
i can do you better. i have had people harass me for driving too well, too safely, and too responsibility. like get pissed at me for leaving space between cars, signalling to pass, staying in the right lane, not doing 60 in a 30, etc.
because makes them feel bad about how they aren't good drivers, and that makes me an asshole. because i should be a worse driver to protect and validate their feelings and their bad driving habits.
they don't want to be better, they want to tear down everyone else to their petty miserable level.
That’s brutal. Definitely experienced something similar back in high school.