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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/doloniia on 2025-05-30 13:18:50+00:00.
I don't really get road rage. I think it's a weird unique thing to me because the nicest people I know still get road rage. But. The other month I got road rage for the first time.
I was driving on a one way downtown through my old college. A light was still green but I noticed the next light had people stopped all the way up to the intersection I was at, so I stopped at the line to avoid the light turning red while I was still stuck in the middle of the intersection. I did it maybe a little abruptly. Not slamming on my breaks, but not something I started breaking for when most people would've if it were a red light. Something between leaning towards the latter.
Anyways, I think the car behind me probably almost rear ended me and was pissed when he saw the light was green. He started slamming on the horn. He rolled down his window, flipped me off, waving me forward, calling me names. I was ok until he just kept going. I thought, maybe he would realize what was going on. Nope. He just kept honking. Kept yelling at me like I was the dumbest person on the road.
Fine, I thought, pissed off enough now. I saw there was just enough space between the crosswalk ahead and the car I could squeeze in and not really bother anyone. The next light is still red. I pull forward, squeeze in, and Mr. Sunshine behind me just follows me like I'm going anywhere else.
So much joy when our light turned red and the next one hadn't turned green yet. There's college students everywhere, he reverses to let them through, but reverses right into oncoming traffic that was just about to start. People pull up to Mr. Sunshine and start honking, he tries squeezing his car as close to mine, but cuts off the pedestrians in the process and now everyone's pissed, his big SUV is now blocking traffic and the crosswalk. The light turns green again and the next wave of traffic can't get through. Everyone's honking. He's flipping off the other people. We finally went and the intersection un-gridlocked itself.
Joy. I felt joy from my first road rage experience.