A new low
Well, my cycle ride home today hit a new low.
After flicking the finger at a motorist who tried to cut me up and then left his fist on the horn whilst driving inches from my rear wheel, the said driver then overtook me (this was on the A2 through New Cross), swerved in front of me, rolled down his window and spat at my face.
Firstly, I know I shouldn’t have reacted in the first place… but I consider hand gestures to be DEFCON 5 in the road rage range.
I’d like to think that the reason I didn’t hurt his car or react in an even more violent manner was because I took the moral high ground and decided to be a better person.
The truth is, I wasn’t quick enough. I really wanted to do him harm.
I have calmed down now - AND I STILL WANT TO DO TERRIBLE THINGS TO HIM. And this really annoys me, because the pacifist bit of me is appalled. I would love to get in a time machine and revisit the event, and apologize for the rude finger and explain why I did it - unfortunately another bit of me wants the time machine so that I can go to work on his car and/or face with a length of steel pipe.
Isn’t it lucky we don’t carry guns in this country. It’s easy to see how, in the heat of the moment, access to a weapon that can deliver instant lead anger at 1220 m/s would be a bad thing – even in the hands of such a reasonable person as me (sic).
Written by exmonkey on August 22nd, 2006 with
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