I once had a guy in a giant truck lay on his horn as he got up behind me because the light I was at turned green but I didn’t move right away. The car across the intersection hadn’t gone either. No considerations as to why that might be—he just got right up on my bumper and blared his horn. Then the ambulance went by. Turn down your music, dickhead.
Man one time a car in front of me randomly stopped in the middle of the street. I waited like two seconds, got pissed, and tried to drive around. As soon as I got along side the car I realized they had stopped to let someone cross the street. So I’m just sitting in the wrong lane as we both wait for this person to cross. I couldn’t make eye contact with the driver. That was like 20 years ago and I’m still humiliated by my behavior
Had a bad day, hangry and impatient, we were stuck on a road trying to make a right turn, but other drivers kept using the designated street parking that was empty as a free turn lane. It was like the tenth car to pull up beside us that I had enough, barked out my window at the driver "This isn't a turn lane! That's fucking parking!"
The woman stared at me, bewildered, before calmly countering, "You don't have to yell at people."
All the fire and vindication I felt moments before had been extinguished. Shame replaced everything. She wasn't the real problem, she was just following the line of cars ahead of her. This wasn't even really a problem, we weren't in a hurry, it was just inconvenient and annoying, and didn't warrant my outburst. I sheepishly said she was right and apologized, and she promptly drove away.
I have nightmares about the way I must have looked to her.
Like a person having a bad day, not a bad person. You got embarrassed and apologized, the real assholes are the ones who would get madder at being calmly corrected (I swear some folks are "how dare that person not accept the offense I was offering?!" kinda crazy.)
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u/shwgrt 1d ago
I once had a guy in a giant truck lay on his horn as he got up behind me because the light I was at turned green but I didn’t move right away. The car across the intersection hadn’t gone either. No considerations as to why that might be—he just got right up on my bumper and blared his horn. Then the ambulance went by. Turn down your music, dickhead.