Flip Off One Motorist? I Don't Think So...

Some things are just common sense. Take civilized driving for example.
I will admit that some drivers tick me off, however.
I recall once while driving in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, a guy wanted into my lane but I was in a hurry and I didn't let him pull in front of me. He caught up to me at the next stop light. After pulling alongside of me he waved a leather holster out his window. he shouted, "I've done time before and I'm not too worried about doing it again." Honest to God, he really said that. He did that only because I didn't yeild to him. I did not break any law by not letting him in but it didn't matter to him. The police didn't seem too concerned when I reported the incident. I reported it because I saw the holster. I couldn't tell if there was a gun it it but I thought the police should at least interview the guy.
You would think that incident would teach me a lesson but I guess it didn't. When my buddy got married, I was his best man. We were in his car heading to the rehearsal and a car behind us kept creeping right up to his back bumper every time we stopped at a traffic light. After four or five lights, my buddy said, "If he does that again, I'm getting out of the car." Sure enough, it happened. he slammed the car into park and jumped out. Like an idiot, I got out too. He went up to the driver's side door and started yelling at the guy and pounding on the window. I said,"MacLeod." he ignored me. So I raised my voice, "MacLeod!" He still ignored me, his concentration centered on the driver of the car, who wasn't saying a word. So I walked up and slapped him on the back of the head. He turned around, shouting, "What?" I said, "I don't want to spoil your party, but I count seven heads in that car." He looked at me, then at the driver, than back at me, "Really?" "Yeah, and that makes it seven against two if they get out of the car." He looked back at the driver and said, "Have a nice night."
My point is, road rage, to some degree has overcome all of us at one point or another. The vast majority of us just resort to saying a cuss word or two, or maybe just flipping the bird. But even flippingoff another driver could be a mistake. I recieved an email the other day that spells it out in plain English and I thought you might find it entertaining, if nothing else:
I was driving to work the other day when I observed a female driver cut right in front of a pick-up truck, causing him to to have to drive on the shoulder to avoid hitting her. This evidently angered the truck driver enough that he hung his arm out the window and 'flipped' her off.
"man, that guy is stupid," I thought to myself. I always smile nicely and wave ina sheepish manner whenever a female does anything to me in traffic and here's why:
I drive 48 miles each way to work. That's 96 miles each day. Of these, 16 is bumper to bumper. Most of the bumper to bumper is on an eight-lane highway. There are seven other cars every 40 feet for 32 miles. That works out to 982 cars every miles or 31,424 cars. Even though the rest of the drive isn't bumper to bumper, I figure I pass another 4,000 cars. That brings the number close to 36,000 cars that I pass every day.
Statistically, half the drivers are female. That's 18,000 women drivers. In any given group of females, one in 28 did not get enough sleep. That's 642, According to Cosmopolitan, 70 per cent of women describe their love life as unsatisfying or unrewarding. That's 449.
According to the National Institute of Health, 22 per cent of all females have seriously considered homicide. That's 98. And 34 per cent describe men as their biggest problem. That's 33. According to the National Rifle Association, 5 per cent of all females carry weapons and they say that number is increasing. That means that every single day I drive past at least one female that did not get enough sleep, has a lousy love life, thinks men are her biggest problem, has seriusly considered killing someone before, and she has a gun in the car.
Flip one off? I think not.