I was trying to figure out today why people are so brutally selfish behind the wheel of a car, why they'd sooner kill you than let you cut in. Then it hit me:
HORSEPOWER CORRUPTS.
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I don't remember where I read it, but there was something about people who had bumper stickers expressing their personal beliefs were more like to consider the road their "own" as they did they vehicles. A place from which to assert their ownership of the road.
Or something like that.
I have owned several cars with, um... greater than average horsepower, and well... yes, you're right. Horsepower corrupts.
And makes driving a lot more fun ;-)
Posted by: Donna B. | June 28, 2008 at 01:59 AM
It also increases RPM.
Posted by: Rod | June 28, 2008 at 05:27 AM
Better IT should hit you than . . . Road rage is simply an extension of the creeping lack of affect that takes over people who dwell in isolated cubicle apartments and are obsessivley possessive about "their space," wherever they have claimed it to be.
Posted by: Mom | June 28, 2008 at 02:27 PM