ridin' crazy

When driving in Atlanta you can throw all of that southern hospitality crap out of a fast moving car window-especially if it's raining. In Atlanta, rain gives you an excuse to drive like an asshole(more of an asshole than usual). It rained just about the entire day last Monday or Tuesday. I saw a car trying to get into the left lane from the right lane. Of course the person in the left lane woudln't let them in, so the other guy just went ahead and jumped in front of him. Not so much in front of, as into. The guy who got rammed just stopped in the middle of the street, stopping traffic in the left lane, and the woman in the other car pulled into an adjacent parking lot where she cussed, flailed and kicked while she looked at the damage to her car. I think she flipped him the bird from across the street too-as if the guy ran into her.
Later on that day I was driving down the street. It was still raining, and we all know that the laws of driving change in the rain. When it's raining you have to forget everything you leared since you were 16. I had a green light and some fool tried to turn left in front of me (you don't have to yield the right of way in the rain). Me and the driver in the car next to me stopped inches from hitting the crazy driver, who honked and cussed at as as if we stopped in the intersection to sightsee.
That brings me to my last point. I know you're mad when somebody cuts you off or runs a light, but I'm pretty sure that giving the bird or showing your mean face won't change it. People give you the bird because they know that there isn't anything you can do. In a perfect world you could stop your car and have a fight to the death in the intersection, but you can't-so they just give you the bird. I guess it gives them some sense of accomplishment. They go home and they say, "Honey, some asshole cut me off today." Honey says, "Awww baby. What'd you do?" "Well, I wanted to kick his ass but since I couldn't I just flipped him the bird and looked at him really mean. I sure showed him. He'll never do that again."
But the thing is...you don't know what kind of day that other person has had. You may be flipping off a crazy person, or somebody who is at the edge of snapping. You just pushed them over the edge. I hope they follow you and beat the crap out of you or slash your tires. Next time you'll think before you flip somebody off for something as small as cutting you off. Don't give me a mean face either. If you wanna pull into a parking lot and go, let's go, but if not then straighten your face and your Brooks Brothers tie and keep driving.