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Driving gripes? I try not to gripe... I realize that not everyone can be as thoughtful and considerate a driver as me.
For example, if someone is stuck trying to pull out of a parking lot onto a busy street, I will think to myself "huh... I should have slowed down and waved that guy in front of me" as I pass by. Most people don't trouble themselves with thinking about such things, but I am a thoughtful and considerate driver.
Similarly, if I pull into an intersection and am still stuck there when the light changes due to gridlocked traffic ahead I think to myself "huh... I should have waited to make sure traffic ahead was moving before pulling into this intersection. Thinking things through like this is surely the mark of a thoughtful and considerate driver." Sometimes other drivers even toot their horns to serenade my unselfishness as I sit there. Some are so overcome with admiration that they look like they are on the verge of exiting their own cars to come over just to talk to me.
No offense to anyone letting off steam here, but superior drivers like myself get greater satisfaction from thinking abour our own courteous driving than from griping about others... they can't help it if they don't have the same sort of driving savvy as us. You have to be born with it, I think.
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