Angry people

[den]

Today I was crossing the road. I waited for a gap in the traffic, then walked quickly across the road. There was a car heading for me, as you would expect, but she had plenty of room and didn't have to slow down. I got to the other side and she screeched to a stop. I looked at her in surprise, and the fellow behind her screeched to a halt then blew his horn. She opened the driver's door, stood in the middle on the road and pointed across her car at me.

"Next time I'll fucking run over you, ya fucking pooftah!" she screamed. I looked around to see if I was standing near anyone she might know, but I was alone on the footpath.

The bloke blowing his horn wrenched on his wheel and gunned the engine to go around her. He dropped the passenger window and paused long enough to shout "Why don't you arseholes get a fucking room!"

The woman shouting at me gave him the finger and screamed "FUCK OFF!"

"Get out of the fucking way!" shouted the next driver, a woman. She also got the finger and a "fuck you" from the screaming madwoman.

By now the woman I offended by walking in front of her car was having slobbering fits. She slammed her door hard, really hard, and screamed at me and the people blowing their horns at her. Then she climbed into her car slammed the door again and screamed off, screeching to a halt at the stop sign 50m down the road before smoking the wheels around the intersection.


What has happened to everyone? Why are people so angry over really trivial things?

Comments

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Didn't you know the Moron Parade was scheduled for just then?

My advice: leave the scene. Quickly.

-The Gneech

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I think I was the scene.

And I was too shocked to think about moving. All I could think was "What the...?"

[bunyip.livejournal.com]

What the hell?? This sounds like Chicago, not fucking Dubbo. ;)

[hendikins.livejournal.com]

My first thought was that I could *so* see that happening in Sydney. What is it with people anyway?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

That's what I'm wondering. Why get so ANGRY over having to touch the brake, if she even did touch it? And the amount of time she lost by stopping to abuse me was far greater than any time she might have lost by having to slow down a few kph.

And this is Dubbo! Imagine how bad it would be had it happened in Sydney.

[hendikins.livejournal.com]

Probably explains the half a dozen police cars and ambulance I saw opposite Westfield at Liverpool at ~2030...

[jim-lane.livejournal.com]

You really have a talent of pissing people off, don't you---

(hehehe!!!)

[quen-elf.livejournal.com]

On the plus side, this post was really funny. so maybe we should thank angry people for providing entertainment :)

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

*Giggles* So much for the rules: NO POOFTA'S!

Have the best

-=TK

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

No valuable comment here except expression on the usericon. I wish more people would take up punching bag sessions in the gym.

[kellicjtiger.livejournal.com]

New for the 2006 Toyota Prius - battlefield nukes. Yes you too can blow the living crap out of the idiots of the world who are too stupid to let things go and move on with life. Simply hit the big red button in the center of your console and bam. No more idiot.

[http://users.livejournal.com/crossfire_/]

Icon love.

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

I think that sometimes the anger, pain, frustration builds inside until a critical point is reached an then, like lightning, a hand target presents itself and all the built up emotion is poured onto the target.

[kayshapero]

Yep. Stress. Probably why most of us think of this sort of thing as being common in big cities where you've got a lot of people crowded into one area annoying each other.

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

DAMN! The farthest I ever get is flipping the bird at the morons who don't pay attention at the traffic lights and/or ignore the pedestrian signals. If you had a camera, you would have the advantage in that you could catch these bozos on film; the disadvantage is that just *seeing* one could cause them to break *it* and *you*. I've never been hit, thankfully. I would have had to run away.

[frith]

Ha ha ha! That's great!

[lone-cat.livejournal.com]

Perhaps she was channeling John Bolton.

[penprickle.livejournal.com]

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