Silly Road Rage

I have just finished the three essay readings, ending with Deborah Lupton. I also found this the most intriguing to write about. I have been doing a lot of driving in the last week and have experienced these road rage problems firsthand. I have not been directly behind the wheel but am an eye witness in the front passengers seat. My boyfriend, Andrew, had been the designated driver in our road trips this past week.
The first was a trip down to Portsmouth, N.H. We were driving on the highway and like many other highways there was an entrance ramp where cars were entering the route. On this particular entrance ramp there was a women driving a large SUV with Massachusetts license plate. She was driving along side us but wasn’t showing any signs of speeding up to go ahead to slowing down to fall behind. There were cars to the left of us so Andrew could not move over for her oversized vehicle to join us on the road. We started to run out of space as the transition lane gradually disappeared. It didn’t seem like the women was going to make any effort to prevent an awkward car jam, so Andrew speed up in front of her. I turn back and see her making a pissed of gesture and mouthing the unoriginal word a**hole. The first thing that goes through my mind is the same letters only with an M in front of it. At the nest toll both the same lady goes through a different gate and then speeds passed us still looking very angry.
A couple days after that drive we headed into the heart of bad Mass drivers, Boston. It seems like everybody driving in Boston is irritated, angry and in a hurry. They beep every second something is not going exactly their way. I could feel the tension all around me. I didn’t experience any major road rage there just a lot of beeping while cars would get really close to intimidate you to push through the red light or run through the pedestrians.
I defiantly agree with Lupton that people’s road rage is a big problem. This essay also made me think of Julia’s car goal for this break. To try to treat and see drivers as people and not just another car. I know I can sometime be rude to other drivers too but I an not rude to the people that walk beside me or face to face. I think everybody could try to work on that concept and that would really help with the silly road rage.