Do you experience Road Rage? Are you easily angered by other drivers? How about construction, congestion, too many cars going where you’re going – do they make you angry? If so, then you probably suffer from “Road Rage.”
Construction on the road is one cause of road rage. This causes delays in the traffic. Add crowded highways and roads and what you get is congestion. This leads to sitting in traffic and becoming a more anxious, angry driver.
As humans, we usually start jabbing with our elbows or backing up when our territory is invaded. Add road rage to the fuel and put us behind a big hunk of steel and what do you think can happen? Exactly – we start jabbing with our ton of steel. We are anonymous and can become very bold.
Anyone can have road rage. It doesn’t matter how old you are or if you are male or female. Road rage does, however, tend to be more common in highly populated areas. These areas are naturally overcrowded with people and automobiles and experience a lot of road rage.
How do you overcome Road Rage? What are some ways to deal with it?
Here are some ideas to help you deal with your road rage.
1. Calm down and control your anger. Two or three deep breaths can help here.
2. First thing to remember is safety. Doing something stupid that will cause harm to you or another person is not being safe.
3. Do not get personal. Maybe that overly aggressive driver is having a really bad day. He may have just received very bad news and is frantic to join his family.
4. Don’t play police officer. It is NOT your job to punish a bad driver. Leave that to the authorities.
5. Be sensitive to the fact that mistakes do happen. Sometimes what we think is aggressive driving is just a mistake. Pretend that person is from another planet and doesn’t understand our driving rules. Or maybe they are just from out of town and are lost and confused in traffic.
6. Don’t let the other drive ruin your day. Since you will probably never see them again, don’t give them the power to control how the rest of your day will be.
7. If necessary, pull over. Stop and get out of your car. Run in place, do some jumping jacks – anything to release that physical rush of anger.
8. Don’t be the “other driver.” Cutting off other drivers, hogging the fast lane, tailgating, creates road rage in them. Don’t do to others what you don’t want them doing to you.
9. If you do come upon a very angry driver, avoid eye contact with him. Stay clear, get out of his way, and just let him move on down the road.
Avoid road rage. Be sensible. Stay safe.
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