A few weeks back, I was driving from Flatbush to Monsey, and on the George Washington bridge, I needed to switch over to a lane on my right.
I look back on my blind spot, and rear view, and there is plenty of room, so I put on my blinkers and start crossing over.
Hoooooooooooooooooonkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I pulled back over in my lane because some idiot saw my turn signal, then sped into my area and began honking at me because of it.
He then pulls behind me and like some stupid pseudo cop begins flashing his lights, and honks.
Then he pulls aside me and still honking "orders" me to "pull over".Nevermind the fact that there is no place to pull over, a glance at his car reveals several unhappy looking minorities.
I assess the situation. These guys have numerical courage so they want to administer an ass-kicking on their own terms. They have no real way of getting me off the road. The only options they have that would scare me is ramming or shooting, and neither is a likely situation. I have a rental and can ram it into things day in and day out, because I already paid the insurance. Sun Tsu would tell me duking it out would result in my loss and not theirs.
I decide that for all intents and purposes there is nothing they can do to me. I dont have to care a bit about their anger, and the most infuriating thing to do is to not reciprocate. I turn to them, smile and wave, then cut them off and drive home.
How do you deal with other peoples anger?