dr_lizardo

My road test was basically like I was told it would be, an $95 drive around the block. I guess there was a good representation of road hazards. I started across an intersection and a mom in her subaru wagon loaded with kids zoomed across the intersection in front of me, and then after I'd turned there was a pickup parked in front of a store with a ladder mounted on top sticking way out into the road that I had to go into the oncoming lane to get around. The trooper who was testing me was pretty free about speaking his mind about what he thought of that mom in the subaru and her driving.

Which sort of reminds me of the now and then when my former bookstore boss and I might go somewhere together in her car. She roundly cussed out other drivers, made snippy comments about the make and model of cars they drove, incited other drivers to speed up and so forth. I was telling another group of friends at another job about how my old boss was like this when driving, and one of them blushed while another reported that she screamed at other drivers when she was driving. It strikes me it might sometimes be the case that when they are in the privacy of their automobiles, that people might cut loose with all the venom that they build up toward other people, that normally they have to keep pent up and under control. So road rage may in fact not be generated entirely by the road itself.