BTW, just type the typical smiley faces and it converts them!

I never claimed not to have done some stupid shit. I have just learned that getting red ass behind the wheel of a “2000 lb. killing machine” is not the right place or time.

All I am saying is chill man…I have learned that having to eat crow sucks…

As for the guy driving 5 mph…”someone who is confused and perhaps even lost trying to get across the lanes of traffic”. I am not saying that he was right, it would have indeed been safer for him as well as everyone else around him if he had simply continued until he could safely cross the lanes of traffic and then back track to where ever he wanted to go. All I am saying is have a little compassion for your fellow drivers. You don’t know what is going on in the lives of the other drivers on the road. Granted no one should let whatever is going on in their lives to effect their driving, but face it…it happens.

All I am saying is just chill…deep breathes…inhale though the nose….exhale through the mouth…

BTW…how do you get all of those little smiley faces into your posts?

I was already running late to meet Tasha at the gym, traffic was ridiculous @ 114/121, so I took my normal backup route to avoid the stop/go stuff. On that backup route, a road was closed creating a longer diversion and more stop/go traffic than what I was trying to avoid.

So, since I was already irritated, these things just got to me…

Also, my descriptions and your visualizations may be drastically different

I was using my horn as a safety device to warn the dude that he was making things dangerous for those around him and trying to make a stupid and dangerous lane change and that he should just move on down the road to make his move. If someone honks at me, I immediately think “hmm…what am I doing that is making this guy honk at me” and log it away for future circumstances to avoid.

I did break my own rule. I likely had a chance to change lanes and get around the guy before I was stuck behind him, but I admitted that. It may have even risked getting sideswiped by the guy making his dangerous lane change.

You mention the safety implications of my driving but never comment on the guys effort to cross 2 lanes of 50 mph traffic while going 5 mph. What about the safety of him and the passengers he has in his car. I was trying to continue with the flow of traffic (maybe + 5mph ). I assure you that my actions were MUCH safer than his.

BTW, I won’t comment on the unsafe driving habits I have seen of yours Remember, you are just as important to my wife!

Honking to express your displeasure with other drivers and then annoying someone after they have pissed you off…I am pretty sure at that point you have broken you at least one of your own rules listed in your article.

If you decided to speed past everyone else and then quickly approach someone who is confused and perhaps even lost trying to get across the lanes of traffic, then all of a sudden there is a collision, whose fault do you think it is? Is it the person who was lost and confused and just trying to get to where they were going or you, driving faster than traffic around you because you have 400 frickin hp?

Speed is for the race track…not public streets. It took me a long time to realize that.

Safety should always be the foremost thing in anyone’s mind when they get behind the wheel of a car. It is a 2000 lb. killing machine. Don’t forget that you are the most important thing in my daughters life…don’t screw it up because you’ve got a hard on for your 400 frickin hp.

I post this because I care about you…