Weird Behaviour from strangers?

[pstott]

Somewhat releated, but this concerns driving. I travel to and from work on a very busy multi-lane highway every day. I have noticed in the last couple of weeks there seems to be more people driving quite fast. I am a fairly quick driver, but there are quite a few vehicles now faster than I want to go, which was not the case just a few weeks ago.

Also, there seem to be more people changing lanes wityhout signalling, or just cutting in front of me as though I am not there. Mybe it's just an increase in peoples' frenetic pace leading up to the year-end?

 

[Cleo]

What has been written on this thread reminds me of something that happened more than three months ago (I wrote this originally not too soon after but didn't post-seems to be a developing theme with me ) and also has to do with driving.

My partner and I were driving on the highway at night (he the driver) and the conversation turned a little heated when we started to talk about subjects that aren't the easiest to talk about such as drone warfare, pschopathy and the dark side of American culture. We didn't completely agree on all topics to say the least. I emotionally reacted and became stressed by a few things he said trying to defend my point when all the sudden drivers around us started to act chaotically. We were in the middle lane when the car right behind us seemingly honks at us and then quickly gets in the fast lane, passing us. Then soon after a car to the right passes us in the slow lane and then quickly moves into our lane right in front of us, hitting the breaks, causing my partner to suddenly slow down and break to prevent rear ending them. It happened so all the sudden and it shook me up a bit to realize how emotionally reactive or compromised we both had become in that short time span, and the danger that we were possibly exposed to.

 

[benbuehne]

It's important to seperate an actual pattern from confirmation bias in cases like these. I can tell you that if you are one to harness your energy... to cleans your soul... to try to do good then there seems to be a certain type of person seeking to take this from you. So this may be a sign that you need to get better at learning to protect this.