Reducing road rage

[travajante]

I admire you in "reining your emotions"! Unlike me, who snapped at that instance.

Same thing, he hit my side mirror. I honked for the long time, half of forever as you described it.

I opened my window and flipped his mirror, hard! He opened his window and said to me that I should have given way to him. Without speaking, I hit the side mirror again and again in an attempt​ to destroy it.

He made the gesture of going out. Since I have no way of going out of my car, I instinctively reached out to get whatever I can to defend myself. I did this without taking my eyes away from him, with a sharp looking eyes!

He suddenly stopped, and I don't know why but he was motionless for a few moments. I was still looking at him, intently and ready for anything. Then I looked for what I was holding, taking my time what it was. Then I looked at him again, feeling my gnashing teeth. He decided to drove away, on the other side of the road.

I usually give way, regardless if he is coming from my right or left. But I have very little patience with those who counterflow.

So I really admire you, together with *EQAddict, who while being blamed by the motorcycle driver still kept his composure and let the guy go. I couldn't imagine myself letting go of that guy, who is solely responsible for ripping the tire. And a pair of tires is expensive!

Now that it is in the past, good thing the other driver stopped and went away. The guy is much bigger than me. Considering my small, tiny, thin, body, I have no way of defending myself.

And to think that what I got in my hand back then is a small plastic bottle!
[emoji3]

I have a lot to give thanks, one is I'm still alive even to a bad guy like me. I hope I am forgiven, by the driver and those who will be reading this, for my shameful actions.

My guess....He froze, more in awe than in fear, upon recognizing who he hit, Brother Bossing.[emoji4][emoji120]

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[Archerfish]

Siguro Sir masama lang po gising mo nung araw na yun, pero i have a feeling that you are a nice person.

I do hope you understand my tagalog, since you converse in english language only

I can fully understand you as I'm a Filipino. I just use English as I don't want to see a lot of underlined letters as I type, besides that I have a "finger memory".

You know, the finger placement for "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".

[Archerfish]

My guess....He froze, more in awe than in fear, upon recognizing who he hit, Brother Bossing.[emoji4][emoji120]

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I'm actually ashamed of my post, but I'm just being honest with my experience without sugarcoating it.

I was having second thoughts about the post but I decided that it might help in a way, that we should always keep our emotions in check. In full rein, as described by *dr.d, so as to avoid unnecessary regrets.

If we obey traffic laws and etiquettes, and we don't receive it in return, then let this be a reminder that it is not worth our life, to tell the offending party to follow what we follow. In other words, let us extend that courtesy even if others are not doing it.

I know, this is easier said than done.

[travajante]

I'm actually ashamed of my post, but I'm just being honest with my experience without sugarcoating it.

I was having second thoughts about the post but I decided that it might help in a way, that we should always keep our emotions in check. In full rein, as described by *dr.d, so as to avoid unnecessary regrets.

If we obey traffic laws and etiquettes, and we don't receive it in return, then let this be a reminder that it is not worth our life, to tell the offending party to follow what we follow. In other words, let us extend that courtesy even if others are not doing it.

I know, this is easier said than done.

Ashamed of? I read it positively. Humility starts w/ admission. That over pride, boss brother![emoji106] Hats off![emoji120]

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[Tina M.]

I can fully understand you as I'm a Filipino. I just use English as I don't want to see a lot of underlined letters as I type, besides that I have a "finger memory".

You know, the finger placement for "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".

Yes Sir, i know the placement of fingers in the keyboard. What i knew is "The quick brown fox jumps over the sleeping lazy dog."


Sir, correct me if i am wrong, which is correct?

"sentence." or "sentence".

[dr. d]

butting in.

i put the period after the ", if the quotation is part of a sentence.
i put the period before the " , if the quotation IS the sentence.

i didn't study or research this. it just seems... correct to me.

[minicarph]

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He made the gesture of going out. Since I have no way of going out of my car, I instinctively reached out to get whatever I can to defend myself.

He suddenly stopped, and I don't know why but he was motionless for a few moments. I was still looking at him, intently and ready for anything. Then I looked for what I was holding, taking my time what it was. Then I looked at him again, feeling my gnashing teeth. He decided to drove away, on the other side of the road.

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hulaan ko kung ano hawak mo? parking brake ba? Kung nahulaan ko, ako din matatakot ako sayo nun kasi natanggal mo yun , incredible hulk

[Archerfish]

Yes Sir, i know the placement of fingers in the keyboard. What i knew is "The quick brown fox jumps over the sleeping lazy dog."


Sir, correct me if i am wrong, which is correct?

"sentence." or "sentence".

I think it depends, if is a sentence, and not a phrase, then the period should be inside the quotation marks. If it is a word or phrase that happens to end in the sentence, then the period should be outside of the quotation marks.

It seems *dr.d agrees with me on this post,

butting in.

i put the period after the ", if the quotation is part of a sentence.
i put the period before the " , if the quotation IS the sentence.

i didn't study or research this. it just seems... correct to me.

I am not a language teacher so I cannot claim that what I said is correct but, "It just seems correct for me." And that is perhaps a good example of a "sentence".
[emoji3]

[Archerfish]

hulaan ko kung ano hawak mo? parking brake ba? Kung nahulaan ko, ako din matatakot ako sayo nun kasi natanggal mo yun , incredible hulk

This is the first time, for the longest time, that I literally laughed for something by simply reading!!!

You are always hilarious and you never lose your touch.

[SoleusBB]

Dami ako ginagawa so just got to read this thread just now...


Now that you know better, do better.

===
No one's condemming you.

And sa mga nagmamgagaleng diyan... o sige, cast the first stone. Baka boulder naman ibalik sa inyo if kilatisin buhay nyo

[chronicle]

May naka alitan ako once.
Nagbabaan ng windows at nagtanungan kung ano gusto naming dalawa.
After 5 mins, winangwangan na kami ng police na naka park sa tabi. Parehong nabahag buntot namin. Hahaha. Alis kaagad.
Lahat tayo may bad days talaga. It's part of life.

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[travajante]

I'm actually ashamed of my post, but I'm just being honest with my experience without sugarcoating it.

I was having second thoughts about the post but I decided that it might help in a way, that we should always keep our emotions in check. In full rein, as described by *dr.d, so as to avoid unnecessary regrets.

If we obey traffic laws and etiquettes, and we don't receive it in return, then let this be a reminder that it is not worth our life, to tell the offending party to follow what we follow. In other words, let us extend that courtesy even if others are not doing it.

I know, this is easier said than done.

Your story & telling, for some odd reason, kinda brings me back another I read long ago....Can't help but equate the deer to the other driver....sorry, a long Off Topic read ahead...Had to dig to quote....

"I had this idea that I was going to rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it.

The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured that, since they congregate at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear of me when we are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the bags of feed while I am in the back of the truck not 4 feet away), it should not be difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head (to calm it down) then hog tie it and transport it home.

I filled the cattle feeder then hid down at the end with my rope.

The cattle, having seen the roping thing before, stayed well back.

They were not having any of it. After about 20 minutes, my deer showed up -- 3 of them. I picked out a likely looking one, stepped out from the end of the feeder, and threw my rope.

The deer just stood there and stared at me.

I wrapped the rope around my waist and twisted the end so I would have a good hold. The deer still just stood and stared at me, but you could tell it was mildly concerned about the whole rope situation.

I took a step towards it. It took a step away. I put a little tension on the rope and then received an education. The first thing that I learned is that, while a deer may just stand there looking at you funny while you rope it, they are spurred to action when you start pulling on that rope.

That deer EXPLODED!

The second thing I learned is that pound for pound, a deer is a LOT stronger than a cow or a colt. A cow or a colt in that weight range I could fight down with a rope and with some dignity.

A deer? No chance.

That thing ran and bucked and twisted and pulled. There was no controlling it and certainly no getting close to it. As it jerked me off my feet and started dragging me across the ground, it occurred to me that having a deer on a rope was not nearly as good an idea as I had originally imagined. The only up side is that they do not have as much stamina as many other animals.

A brief 10 minutes later, it was tired and not nearly as quick to jerk me off my feet and drag me when I managed to get up. It took me a few minutes to realize this, since I was mostly blinded by the blood flowing out of the big gash in my head. At that point, I had lost my taste for corn-fed venison. I just wanted to get that devil creature off the end of that rope.

I figured if I just let it go with the rope hanging around its neck, it would likely die slow and painfully somewhere. At the time, there was no love at all between me and that deer. At that moment, I hated the thing, and I would venture a guess that the feeling was mutual.

Despite the gash in my head and the several large knots where I had cleverly arrested the deer's momentum by bracing my head against various large rocks as it dragged me across the ground, I could still think clearly enough to recognize that there was a small chance that I shared some tiny amount of responsibility for the situation we were in, so I didn't want the deer to have to suffer a slow death, so I managed to get it lined back up in between my truck and the feeder -- a little trap I had set before hand...kind of like a squeeze chute. I got it to back in there and I started moving up so I could get my rope back.

Did you know that deer bite? They do! I never in a million years would have thought that a deer would bite somebody, so I was very surprised when I reached up there to grab that rope and the deer grabbed hold of my wrist.

Now, when a deer bites you, it is not like being bit by a horse where they just bite you and then let go. A deer bites you and shakes its head --almost like a mad dog. They bite HARD and it hurts.

The proper thing to do when a deer bites you is probably to freeze and draw back slowly. I tried screaming and shaking instead. My method was ineffective. It seems like the deer was biting and shaking for several minutes, but it was likely only several seconds.

I, being smarter than a deer (though you may be questioning that claim by now), tricked it. While I kept it busy tearing the tendons out of my right arm, I reached up with my left hand and pulled that rope loose. That was when I got my final lesson in deer behavior for the day.

Deer will strike at you with their front feet. They rear right up on their back feet and strike right about head and shoulder level, and their hooves are surprisingly sharp. I learned a long time ago that, when an animal -- like a horse --strikes at you with their hooves and you can't get away easily, the best thing to do is try to make a loud noise and make an aggressive move towards the animal. This will usually cause them to back down a bit so you can escape.

This was not a horse. This was a deer, so obviously, such trickery would not work. In the course of a millisecond, I devised a different strategy.

I screamed like a woman and tried to turn and run.

The reason I had always been told NOT to try to turn and run from a horse that paws at you is that there is a good chance that it will hit you in the back of the head. Deer may not be so different from horses after all, besides being twice as strong and 3 times as evil, because the second I turned to run, it hit me right in the back of the head and knocked me down.

Now, when a deer paws at you and knocks you down, it does not immediately leave. I suspect it does not recognize that the danger has passed. What they do instead is paw your back and jump up and down on you while you are laying there crying like a little girl and covering your head.
I finally managed to crawl under the truck and the deer went away. So now I know why when people go deer hunting they bring a rifle with a scope to sort of even the odds."

Lucky you, he did not turn out a deer.[emoji16]

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[bloowolf]

Walang panama yung gitgitan sa EDSA compared sa New Delhi. Dapat tutok na tutok ka kundi sisingitan ka. Kung magkatamaan, hanggang sigawan na lang pero hindi na titigil, wala nang traffic report. Aalis na lang. halos lahat ng auto dun may tama. Pero walang road rage. Iba kasi uso dun.


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[Horsepower]

Walang panama yung gitgitan sa EDSA compared sa New Delhi. Dapat tutok na tutok ka kundi sisingitan ka. Kung magkatamaan, hanggang sigawan na lang pero hindi na titigil, wala nang traffic report. Aalis na lang. halos lahat ng auto dun may tama. Pero walang road rage. Iba kasi uso dun.


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Yeah, iba uso don. Daming rapist dun e. It's like sobrang common nun it should be your top priority not to get raped when going to India.

[ray_noel]

Walang panama yung gitgitan sa EDSA compared sa New Delhi. Dapat tutok na tutok ka kundi sisingitan ka. Kung magkatamaan, hanggang sigawan na lang pero hindi na titigil, wala nang traffic report. Aalis na lang. halos lahat ng auto dun may tama. Pero walang road rage. Iba kasi uso dun.


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Maingay ang daan din sa kanila... normal lang ang excessive use of horn sa new delhi...



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[dr. d]

daming rap-ist.
daming horns.
...figures.
heh heh.
apologies.
couldn't resist.

[Horsepower]

Your story & telling, for some odd reason, kinda brings me back another I read long ago....Can't help but equate the deer to the other driver....sorry, a long Off Topic read ahead...Had to dig to quote....

"I had this idea that I was going to rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it.

The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured that, since they congregate at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear of me when we are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the bags of feed while I am in the back of the truck not 4 feet away), it should not be difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head (to calm it down) then hog tie it and transport it home.

I filled the cattle feeder then hid down at the end with my rope.

The cattle, having seen the roping thing before, stayed well back.

They were not having any of it. After about 20 minutes, my deer showed up -- 3 of them. I picked out a likely looking one, stepped out from the end of the feeder, and threw my rope.

The deer just stood there and stared at me.

I wrapped the rope around my waist and twisted the end so I would have a good hold. The deer still just stood and stared at me, but you could tell it was mildly concerned about the whole rope situation.

I took a step towards it. It took a step away. I put a little tension on the rope and then received an education. The first thing that I learned is that, while a deer may just stand there looking at you funny while you rope it, they are spurred to action when you start pulling on that rope.

That deer EXPLODED!

The second thing I learned is that pound for pound, a deer is a LOT stronger than a cow or a colt. A cow or a colt in that weight range I could fight down with a rope and with some dignity.

A deer? No chance.

That thing ran and bucked and twisted and pulled. There was no controlling it and certainly no getting close to it. As it jerked me off my feet and started dragging me across the ground, it occurred to me that having a deer on a rope was not nearly as good an idea as I had originally imagined. The only up side is that they do not have as much stamina as many other animals.

A brief 10 minutes later, it was tired and not nearly as quick to jerk me off my feet and drag me when I managed to get up. It took me a few minutes to realize this, since I was mostly blinded by the blood flowing out of the big gash in my head. At that point, I had lost my taste for corn-fed venison. I just wanted to get that devil creature off the end of that rope.

I figured if I just let it go with the rope hanging around its neck, it would likely die slow and painfully somewhere. At the time, there was no love at all between me and that deer. At that moment, I hated the thing, and I would venture a guess that the feeling was mutual.

Despite the gash in my head and the several large knots where I had cleverly arrested the deer's momentum by bracing my head against various large rocks as it dragged me across the ground, I could still think clearly enough to recognize that there was a small chance that I shared some tiny amount of responsibility for the situation we were in, so I didn't want the deer to have to suffer a slow death, so I managed to get it lined back up in between my truck and the feeder -- a little trap I had set before hand...kind of like a squeeze chute. I got it to back in there and I started moving up so I could get my rope back.

Did you know that deer bite? They do! I never in a million years would have thought that a deer would bite somebody, so I was very surprised when I reached up there to grab that rope and the deer grabbed hold of my wrist.

Now, when a deer bites you, it is not like being bit by a horse where they just bite you and then let go. A deer bites you and shakes its head --almost like a mad dog. They bite HARD and it hurts.

The proper thing to do when a deer bites you is probably to freeze and draw back slowly. I tried screaming and shaking instead. My method was ineffective. It seems like the deer was biting and shaking for several minutes, but it was likely only several seconds.

I, being smarter than a deer (though you may be questioning that claim by now), tricked it. While I kept it busy tearing the tendons out of my right arm, I reached up with my left hand and pulled that rope loose. That was when I got my final lesson in deer behavior for the day.

Deer will strike at you with their front feet. They rear right up on their back feet and strike right about head and shoulder level, and their hooves are surprisingly sharp. I learned a long time ago that, when an animal -- like a horse --strikes at you with their hooves and you can't get away easily, the best thing to do is try to make a loud noise and make an aggressive move towards the animal. This will usually cause them to back down a bit so you can escape.

This was not a horse. This was a deer, so obviously, such trickery would not work. In the course of a millisecond, I devised a different strategy.

I screamed like a woman and tried to turn and run.

The reason I had always been told NOT to try to turn and run from a horse that paws at you is that there is a good chance that it will hit you in the back of the head. Deer may not be so different from horses after all, besides being twice as strong and 3 times as evil, because the second I turned to run, it hit me right in the back of the head and knocked me down.

Now, when a deer paws at you and knocks you down, it does not immediately leave. I suspect it does not recognize that the danger has passed. What they do instead is paw your back and jump up and down on you while you are laying there crying like a little girl and covering your head.
I finally managed to crawl under the truck and the deer went away. So now I know why when people go deer hunting they bring a rifle with a scope to sort of even the odds."

Lucky you, he did not turn out a deer.[emoji16]

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Thank you, I was laughing so hard while reading this at almost midnight.

[travajante]

Thank you, I was laughing so hard while reading this at almost midnight.

I've re-read that a few times...still cracks me up.[emoji1787]


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[Archerfish]

Nice story, I hope the site has a feature where you can bookmark this.

[travajante]

Nice story, I hope the site has a feature where you can bookmark this.

Time does turn embarrassing, painful booboos funny, right?[emoji16]
Commercial break ends.[emoji4] Let's all remove rage from our roads. Happy motorin'![emoji120]

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