Road Rage

Virtually every time you go onto the motorway or a road in town you will see another driver do something discourteous or just downright dangerous. 

I drive a few junctions up the motorway before 8am in the morning for work, I'm driving, listening to music, normally Bastille and singing, enjoying life then I look to the side and 9/10 a woman is applying make up using the rearview mirror in the outside lane, 10/10 someone is hogging the middle lane doing 60mph, someone is on their mobile phone and at least 2 people are tailgating.  Most morning people are just oblivious to anything other than their own destination, in the wrong lane at roundabouts especially Junction 9 on the M20, they roar past and cut you up with no regard whatsoever. 
Or, often at the lights you take more than a millisecond to move on green or more than a millisecond to move from give way or a stop sign and some utter moron behind lays on the horn, impatient for you to get moving. Glancing in your rear view mirror, you see him flailing his arms and punching a raised fist at you behind his windshield and making various signs which I obviously cannot put on here.

Many times a week just driving up the motorway, I am the recipient of this sort of idiotic and down right dangerous behavior.
Back in the day, my first impulse would be to lay on the horn, shout several curses, or put pedal to the metal and try to pass the guy and then cut him up.
The less aggressive amongst us may at least find ourselves wishing you’d come around the bend and see the car off the road with a flat tyre or, better still see the bright flashing lights of a police car whose uniformed driver has pulled your new worst enemy over.

It is so so easy for me to get angry and never easy for me to let it go.  My wife seriously does not get annoyed by anything on the road, she honestly has the patience of a complete saint.

I have been in the car with someone I will not name and witnessed them shouting at the other driver, nearly rupturing a vein in her forehead, the other driver has already left in a cloud of dust and he has no idea she is yelling, Or if he does, he probably doesn’t even care.

On some occasions I have sat stewing, dreaming of the other drivers immanent intimacy with an overheated radiator and he is long gone, But I am trapped in anger that will linger for a few minutes, clouding the moment with bitterness.

Anger in situations like this does nobody any good at all.
It will not change the situation.
Instead of shrugging it off and getting on with your life, you’re allowing that one discourteous act to take you from being happy and content to bitter and angry.  But, what else can you do? After all, the slight is perceived and the anger arises, unbidden.

I watch my sister mad over Parent & Child Spaces and I now get mad over people parked in Disabled bays without a badge, it's the same form of struggle but I believe I have come across a complete cure, it's obviously simple but will take time to become embedded.
The next time you get honked, cut up, watch a young lad park in the last mother and baby space;

Take a DEEP breath
Release it
Repeat
Now, imagine a person you dearly love has just phoned and told you s/he is in desperate need of immediate assistance for an emergency situation and you are the only one who can offer aid, Imagine how you would be driving in that case.

Now, imagine the person who just provoked you with his/her bad driving is in exactly that predicament.

The fact remains that a response of anger on your part only further upsets you and can even lead to acts of violence in extreme cases of road rage.
In a peaceful frame of mind, wish that person well and safely home, This world would be such a better place if we could all do this one, simple thing.