There are many reasons why shopping online from the comfort of your own home is safer. One major reason is because some of the people out driving on the roads may be suffering from road rage. Road rage may occur for many different reasons, but it doesn’t matter why it happens; what’s important is to know that it happens all the time and has the potential to be quite dangerous.
Drivers suffering from road rage may not even realize that they are behaving irrationally. The smallest mistake that a driver may make has the potential of totally setting off a person who suffers from road rage. The innocent driver may be in the fast lane, yet be going at a speed that the road-rage filled person feels is too slow. This angry person may tailgate you until you are forced to change lanes, or any number of other things. Some people with road rage will even follow you to your destination, especially if you’re alone, and when you get out of the car, they will start a fight with you, or worse.
Anything can cause a person to experience road rage. It could happen all the time, or it could only happen when something particularly upsetting has occurred in the person’s life. A person experiencing road rage could be angry every morning while they are driving to work because they hate their job. They could also be angry on the way home because of an extremely stressful job.
Other reasons why people experience road rage is that they may be in a hurry to reach their destination and wish to speed, yet all of the other drivers are driving the speed limit. This can anger the person enough to have a temporary lapse in judgment, which could cause other drivers or themselves to be hurt. A person with road rage may have also recently been in an argument with someone, or received some bad news. Something like this is all it takes to trigger a road rage episode. A large percentage of motorists can probably say that at some time in their lives that they experienced rage on the road, at least to some extent. It may have just happened once, but that’s all it takes to potentially endanger their own, or someone else’s life.
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