Road rage sometimes makes me go tpg.

I generally consider myself a decent driver. I do have a tendency to follow a little too closely for my speed, most of the time (though not tailgating) but other than that I signal properly, accommodate other drivers, mostly a defensive driver.

However.

I will intentionally piss people off whatever chance I can get. If I'm driving 75 along the freeway in the left lane, and the speed limit is 75, I OWN THAT LANE. The "fast lane" is not for speeding. And if some stuck-up blonde in her daddy's BMW thinks everyone should be going 90 just like her, and starts flashing her headlights and making rude gestures at me to get out of the left lane, I will ignore her. In fact, sometimes I'll wait until I'm right alongside a car in the right lane that's going, say, 73, and match speed with it so she can't get around. It makes me laugh. I'll talk as if she can hear me: "Ohhh, poor baby, you want to get around the stupid law-abiding citizen? You late for a hair appointment? Well guess what, I'm late for WORK, and I can guarantee you whatever you're in a hurry for, unless you got someone dying in the backseat, is not more important than what I'm in a hurry for, so COOL YOUR JETS!" Stuff like that.

One time I went so far as to catch up to and cut off someone who VERY dangerously pushed his way in between myself (who was going the speed limit) and another car in the other lane (who was also going the speed limit) so that he could race off at 90 MPH. So I sped up to 110 (yeah, way dangerous I know) and slid in front of him just as he was about to go past a slow-moving bigrig, and then slowed down to match. Oooh he was pissed. He even followed me off the freeway and into the Walgreen's parking lot and waited for me to get out of my car. So I got out, saw him get out, then got back in and backed up so fast I almost hit him, gave him the finger, and drove off.

So under most circumstances, I'm a safe defensive driver. When people think they're more important than everyone else, I get very dangerous in my quest to piss them off as much as I possibly can, and laugh at their expense. So I'm a bit of a hypocrite.

Jam it back in, in the dark.