Road Rage is a thing. Walking Rage isn't. Why? People can communicate non-verbally when walking much better than they can through cars. Today, for example, I wound up cutting off a bus since the bus just let someone off at a sometimes bus stop and then had to immediately make a left at a light. This involved getting over two lanes. I was just trying to make a left, and assumed that the bus was only going to pull out into either of the straight lanes.
I felt like a dumb ass. I wish there was a "sorry" or an "I'm a dumb ass" button I could press that would communicate my actual feelings. But, I didn't so I'm pretty sure that I came off like a raging dick who didn't care that I had essentially lept into the bus' path and thereby forcing it to wait through a red light.
I find that comes up pretty often. Someone does something stupid or aggressive when driving and I kind of assume that they're just being a dick about it. I think that a few of them weren't trying to be dicks about it, much like I didn't intend to cut off a bus. The problem is that jerks exist. I want to react appropriately, but when I can't tell the difference because they can't tell me.
When walking and someone blunders, they look like they are embarrassed or sorry about it. Or they don't, and then I know they are a dick. I wish there was something, anything, that could mimic that interaction when strapped into the multi-ton frame that is a car.
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