Last Saturday I experienced two
instances of impatience from two young drivers in the space of three
hours. One was directed at me and the other instance was against my
wife, Joan.

Mine was at a gas station where I had
stopped to drop off a passenger. After that task I was maneuvering my
car to exit the same way I had come in. It was a both entrance and
exit. Doing my maneuvering that hardly took ten seconds, a motorist
appeared taking a short cut through the gas station. He tooted me.
Not once, or twice but FOUR times.

After completing my exit he followed
behind me and we both turned left onto the Linford Pierson Highway
whereby he shot past past me and disappeared. He obviously was in a
great hurry and an old dodderer like me in an old car was an extreme
hindrance to his lifestyle.

Patience was not a virtue he possessed.

My wife's incident, that I witnessed,
was right outside our house. She had moved her car from its parking
spot to make way for her friend to put her car there as Joan was
going to do the driving.

Joan waited for her friend to complete
the task and the road we live on is lined on one side with parked
cars although two cars can still pass through – just.

Joan's friend was walking towards
Joan's car that was waiting and a car appeared from further down the
road and blasted with his horn for Joan to move her car out of his
way. The driver would have had to wait again less than ten seconds
for her friend to have got into the car. He saw all this but he was
not going to wait. His hand wenton horn and Joan, who was wondering
what was going on, drove off and pulled over for this impatient young
man to speed off.

This morning I was driving down the
Linford Pierson Highway having gone around the roundabout that
doesn't have any turnoffs (at present). A flurry of cars and a truck
passed me by and some crossed over into my lane. I was going to make
a left hand turn-off further down to come home. A speeding car shot
passed me and proceeded to weave in and out of the lanes to get in
front of the vehicles that had just passed me. After doing this, to
my amazement, with no signaling he then made the same left hand turn
off the Highway that I was going to make ten seconds after him!

What makes some people become so
aggressive and impatient when they get behind the wheel of a car?

And as for honking someone do they
really think that is going to make a difference?

Why can't they just take a deep breath,
relax, obey the speed limits, and become civilized human beings?

Is ten seconds a very long time to
wait?

Is keeping to the speed limit such a
difficult task?

Being impatient may eventually kill
you, and someone else.

Being patient won't.