I'm a cyclist. My blood pressure is regularly raised by people who seem to be intent on killing me.

I don't suffer from road rage but I do hold a running dialogue with other drivers around me, a bit like "Hmm, what do you think you're doing? Ahhh, gotcha, no signals? Never mind, I read your mind ... etc." I studied advanced driving where commentating is a skill in its own right, to help you focus on hazard awareness, but I like to also incorporate a lighthearted side to it to avoid stress and to make the journey go smoothly

LOL! You are about to open the floodgates here. I think I'm fairly chill behind the wheel, HOWEVER, I have very little patience for indecisive drivers, drivers who are effing around on their phones, and plain old dumb-ass drivers. Also, drivers who feel they should occupy the fast lane, yet travel slower than the other lanes. OR, tractor trailer (Semi) drivers who deliberately drift over into the merging lane to prevent cars from passing them. Total assholes, IMHO. And finally, I have traveled many, many times north and south on I-5 between NorCal and SoCal (usually on my way to or from Disneyland) and it just fries my bacon when truckers feel they need to pass each other on an incline at roughly 60MPH. Really? REALLY?? Ok, so I don't sound so chill. LOL!

I try to be chill . . . . .and then SOME FUCKING IDIOT, sorry just thinking about a recent episode got my pressure up. The 4 way stop makes me crazy. and does ANYONE know what an on ramp to the freeway is for? Pretty damn difficult to merge into 60 mile an hour traffic if you're doing 30. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh DId I really need to see this post?!?!?! I think I'll go to the store an smile at people

The crazy is infectious, but one thing that helps is the acronym, "LG&LD", which I printed off on my labeling gun and affixed to my steering wheel. Now when I encounter scofflaws, tailgaters, speeders, and other criminals who have no business being on the road, rather than throwing on my brakes, jumping out my car, and beating them senseless, I simply take a deep breath, look at the sticker on my steering wheel, and say, "Let Go and Let Darwin." Of course, "Let Go and Let Natural Selection" would be more accurate, but not as pithy, and the point is that sooner or later these misfits will remove themselves from the gene pool with or without my help.

I'm pretty easy-going about it except for tailgaters and those folks that want to ride in your blind spot. going slower, then a little slower, then a little slower until they finally pass and see your big smile.

I am seriously relaxed, I have driven a lot in my life, not so much in recent years, I hate traffic. Yet I let people merge easily, don't tail gate, always plenty of room for people to pass, if someone makes a stuff up, I shrug my shoulders at them and maybe pull a face. But road rage is a serious issue here and I am over it. I am able to get my revenge. About 10 years back I was in a shopping centre carpark, this guy behind me was yelling and screaming because cars were not moving, he pulled a screaming you turn, drove all around the centre, came up the outside of the row of traffic, yelling abuse at me and everyone else.
We got outside the centre and I was behind him at the lights.
He took off like a rocket and I was right on his tail,so he went faster, I stayed with him, so he went faster again and I hit the brakes just as he went through a fixed speed camera, I saw the satisfying flash as it went off. Made my day.

Massholes - where I grew up and learned to drive.

Brought a friend from Boston home on a Thursday (At the time our busiest downtown night for traffic due to paychecks being issued in town that day). He said "I thought I knew bad driving - Boston has nothing on you!".

Fond memories of being in Boston and passing a cabbie and everyone else in the car gasped..... Good times.

These days I usually do the swearing for the driver.

I drive for a living so I have to be chill. I don't find it that hard to be honest. Sure people sometimes do some silly things and sometimes so do I. We all make mistakes. Remembering that keeps me sane

I live on a civilized island. We actually wave at each other when seeing another. Summers, get bad because of all the tourists. But we do have a proactive police force.

The biggest problem is driving in a sane, safe place and then going to the mainland and especially I-5 is a big culture shock. People think big cities, like Seattle, are bad but try going to Canada and Vancouver. This is a big city with lots of hills, water and bridge (one major bridge - the Lions Gate- is 3 lanes. In the AM 2 lanes are into the city and the reverse in the PM. The big problem is that there are 5 lanes going into the bridge that need to merge often into 1) I-5 ends there and there are no other freeways. A large portion of the population is Chinese and they drive like in China.

I don't know what it is but there is a mob mentality one can get into on the roads. Everyone seems to feel they need to drive fast and get ahead of everyone else. I start out early, am never in a rush and set the cruise control on and try to ignore (but also watch) the other drivers. I try to stay in the right lane and if someone tail gates I slow down. They get the message and go around. BTW passing in the Right lane is illegal in the U.S. and police do give tickets.

I'm usually chill and easy-going. When thy ride my bumper, though, that makes me particularly nervous. I wonder if it would work to put a big pair of googly eye on the back of my car.

I prefer driving at late at night when there are fewer people on the road and they tend to be friendlier.

I'm a truck driver and I drive long hours every day. I have found that the music makes a difference. If I listen to classic rock or country music I tend to get irritated easier. If I listen to jazz not so much I think it's less distracting.I try to be patient with other drivers I have to remind myself that most people only spend an hour or so a day in traffic. Some people are just learning, some people are just having a bad day. I try not to get behind schedule so I'm not in a hurry.

I am never in a hurry. I do not get upset with other drivers. I am passive and yielding. I err on the side of safety.

I am absolutely terrified of inciting someone's road rage. If someone tailgates me I will pull over to let them pass, as soon as possible, if possible. I don't want to die--especially not murdered by someone enraged because I'm driving five MPH under the SL, while it's raining, in the dark of night. Can't stand my cautious driving? I don't wanna be on the road with you--go right on around me, please, and be involved in a wreck or road rage incident elsewhere. I prefer to live.

I live in a rural area and traffic is just fine. The county I lived in for the last 36 years had 6 stoplights and four of those were in the county seat.

People who are too slow irritate me to no end. If the limit is 80 (kph, I'm Canadian...) and the person ahead of me is doing 70, I've been known to ride their bumper and honk the horn. Someone like that can get a ticket for impeding traffic flow...

I pratically spend my life on the road traveling, and I see this constantly, i always practice good ethics on the road, I let people merge in, will even slow down n flash lights so they can get on the interstate, I think everything you do reflects on the self, if you go out of your way to be kind, kindness will always find you back.

So chill, I am frosty.

My city has a bit of a reputation for it's shit drivers, and I sometimes have to drive around the city a lot for with with a pick-up truck and trailer. So I am very observant of other drivers while I'm driving around, and holy hell there can be a lot of stupid.

The speedsters can be annoying, especially when I am already going the limit or 10km above and they are still zooming past me. But they reach levels of stupid when they are weaving through traffic like a dumb-ass as if it were a race track only to still hit the up-coming red light. Good job, you shaved 2 seconds off your journey, cut several people off, and maybe almost caused an accident.

I've had several issues with people who are a little too anxious to turn and merge onto the road I am going down. They don't seem to realize I have right of way and try to turn too early which has caused me to have to swerve out of the way a few times to not get my back side smashed in.

There's all sorts of other driving infractions I could bring up, but sufficed to say, I am glad I have a dash cam now in case something happens.

I drive for a living so I have to be chill. I don't find it that hard to be honest. Sure people sometimes do some silly things and sometimes so do I. We all make mistakes. Remembering that keeps me sane

Bah, minor pressure level increases by shouting expletives or motioning with my hand or pointing with my middle finger. What really aggravates me is- drivers not yielding to right of way vehicles already in the traffic circle, which causes the person in the traffic circle to stop. Pretty sure you are NOT supposed to stop while driving in a traffic circle.

I'm usually pretty chill, but sometimes, when people are being especially ignorant, I get riled up a bit.

People doing stupid shit behind the wheel gets my dander up. If someone is going slow, I normally cut them a break -- unless, of course, they're going slow in the passing lane. People who try to look up inside my tailpipe -- fine. The joke will be on them if they rear-end me because "following too closely" is a thing while "stopping too short" is not.

The thing that irritates me more than anything else, though, is when someone makes a mistake and then violates traffic law trying to fix it, like the person who signals left, then suddenly goes right. Or the person that misses their freeway exit and hangs an illegal U-Turn instead of going to the next exit, turning around, and coming back. Or the idiot that is in the left turn lane and then suddenly realized they want to make a right turn, so they cross multiple lanes of traffic to turn right from the left turn lane. Shit like that will piss me off in no time flat.

Normal traffic, I'm pretty chill, but dealing with idiots behind the wheel always gets me riled up. This is doubly true if I happen to be on the Harley when someone near me does something stupid.

There are all kinds of roads and highways, though it depends on where I am driving and what's going on at the moment. Whether driving in the city or in the country, I have to be constantly on the defensive. Sometimes it's hard to gauge ones mood or blood pressure in the moment. An occurrence in traffic conditions can instantly spike my mood. Then, sometimes it takes work to navigate safely through the circumstances. Controlling my mood with patience, and slowing down usually work. The traffic isn't getting any better out there. More drivers and decaying roads and bridges are the norm. Something has to be done soon to ensure safety for all drivers. Perhaps new technology will help in the future. Flying vehicles? Instead of a one dimension road system there may be multi lanes in the sky. Once again, this won't last too much longer. Something has to be done.

They drive me insane. And they’re no better with shopping carts.