I love driving. Unless of course there is someone else on the road. I don’t understand my mentality, and i’m sure i’m not completely alone on this – but i noticed something slightly strange today that i seem to be doing more and more often. Let’s set the scene, im driving along, happy as a cat with nobody else around me, there’s a national speed limit in force so im sticking to around 55MPH. I come up behind a car travelling at around 53MPH, still an acceptable speed for a national speed limit on a slightly windy “B” road, but for some reason i find myself agitated and annoyed at the inconvenience that this person has caused me, i feel myself mutter something like “unbeleiveable, how ******* slowly is this ******* going”.
Same situation, im travelling at around 55MPH as before with nobody in front of me, but somebody comes up behind me, not very quickly or close to me, but enough for me to see his/her headlights in my rear-view mirror, im agitated again…i actually find myself starting to try and annoy this person by sticking religiously to the speed limits, and if i turn off your in trouble – because for some reason i’m going to take a little longer in turning so i hold you up for an extra 37milliseconds. Don’t get me wrong, i’m not angry, i’m not driving dangerously, i’m not a freaking mentalist on the road – i just seem to get annoyed if others are near me. Shouldn’t they be somewhere else?
