February 17, 2008 | In: Random
Trace it, Face It and Erase It
Some of our friends know that Amy and I are huge fans of the movie Stuart Saves His Family. Well, today I really felt like I needed to channel Stuart when I was driving along the 101 to the Sunnyvale Skatepark. I am, for the most part, an even-tempered person and do not find myself “losing it” very often. What I do have? Low-level anger that leaks out from time to time (usually on the freeway in or out of traffic jams). I think an example would help illustrate my point here. I was cruising along in the second lane from the right about to pass the Ralston exit, when from out of nowhere, a bloated Lexus sedan (looked like the same one Ari drives in Entourage) decides to sweep from the middle lane all the way to the far right exit lane. I actually said out loud “Everyone is in a big fuckin’ hurry … why don’t I just steamroll 3 lanes of cars to make my exit just because my car is bigger than yours … Douche!”. I made this statement in a fairly loud manner and afterwards, I shook my head and moved on. At the moment it happened, it was very serious business. I think I have always had some issues with anger, but I can dig deeper into that in another post, or in the therapy I will surely need when I hit my mid-life crisis.
3 Responses to Trace it, Face It and Erase It
David
February 19th, 2008 at 4:44 am
Dale, the problem isn’t that you yell at other drivers, the problem is that no one else can hear it. You need to mount a loudspeaker system to your car, something that will be audible at highway speeds.
Amy
March 27th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
I have often fantasized about a loud speaker on top of my car. Or a flashing sign where I can quickly type or speak a brief statment like “Stay in your own lane A******” and it would flash the words so they could read it head-on or from their rear-view mirror. Someday, someday.
Karolina
April 6th, 2008 at 5:48 am
In response to Amy’s comment — actually the sign *does* exist: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/8e9a/
‘It can display any one of five different messages – smiling face, frowning face, “Thanks”, “Back Off” and “Idiot”.’
I think I’d be too worried to use it though… my little car can only run away so fast.