It seems that most people get more cranky as they get older but I often feel the opposite and have if anything learned to disengage or ignore from annoying behavior as it's pretty much a losing battle but... somethings still drive me crazy despite my attitude change which has happened gradually. Anyways, here are a few things off the top of my mind which happen to involve driving.
1.) Slow walkers at crosswalks. I try my best to follow traffic rules not only because I don't want a ticket but also I feel like there is such a thing as the "social contract" even if perhaps most others don't. This includes doing my best to yield at cross walks. I don't know about you but I generally wave to the drive as a pedestrian and pick up the pace but my experience as a driver I usually get these people moving at a sloth's pace despite seeing me waiting for them to cross, often half staring down at their phone and behaving like no one else in the world exists. Do I exist? Yea, I guess I do.
2.) People who deliberately speed up and merge at a highway exit in front of all the cars who got in the exit lane. My most frequently used exit on the BQE (that's a highway that runs from the Bronx to Brooklyn) is the perfect case scenario for this trivial complaint. I line up behind like 20 cars only to have 20 cars zip in front of those in line who allow anymore than a foot or so of space in front of them. Sometimes I try to out maneuver them but that generally just makes me more aggro not to mention it being a bit dangerous.
3.) I'm too tired to remember or write about it after thinking about 1.) and 2.) but will recharge and get back to some more complaining here later after reading the complaints of my fellow considerate pipe smokers.
1.) Slow walkers at crosswalks. I try my best to follow traffic rules not only because I don't want a ticket but also I feel like there is such a thing as the "social contract" even if perhaps most others don't. This includes doing my best to yield at cross walks. I don't know about you but I generally wave to the drive as a pedestrian and pick up the pace but my experience as a driver I usually get these people moving at a sloth's pace despite seeing me waiting for them to cross, often half staring down at their phone and behaving like no one else in the world exists. Do I exist? Yea, I guess I do.
2.) People who deliberately speed up and merge at a highway exit in front of all the cars who got in the exit lane. My most frequently used exit on the BQE (that's a highway that runs from the Bronx to Brooklyn) is the perfect case scenario for this trivial complaint. I line up behind like 20 cars only to have 20 cars zip in front of those in line who allow anymore than a foot or so of space in front of them. Sometimes I try to out maneuver them but that generally just makes me more aggro not to mention it being a bit dangerous.
3.) I'm too tired to remember or write about it after thinking about 1.) and 2.) but will recharge and get back to some more complaining here later after reading the complaints of my fellow considerate pipe smokers.
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