Newton Hightower
* A recent Gallup poll reported that motorists were much worried active road rage (42%) than about fuddled driving (35%). - NY Times
* The Mizell Report, commissioned by AAA, uncovered 10,037 crashes caused by violent aggressive dynamic between January 1, 1990 and August 31, 1996. At least 218 men, women and children were killed as a result of these incidents and another 12,610 were injured. The problem is general in scope, not jut a phenomenon of congested cityfied areas.
* Aggressive dynamic may be a factor in 50% of auto crashes, based on the Washington Beltway Study. Source: Analysis of the Capital Beltway Crash Problem, U.S. DOT, March 1996.
* The problem is getting worse according to the AAA. There is a compound growth rate of 7%.
The Movie, ANGER MANAGEMENT, has a novel technique for solving roadworthy rage and a sense of time urgency in traffic.
Dave Buznik, a soft-spoken businessman played by Adam Sandler, is ordered to undergo anger management therapy by Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson) an unorthodox psychologist.
While Buddy is riding with Dave to work, Dave becomes increasingly anxious and upset about being late. Buddy (Nicholson) reaches finished and pulls up the emergency brake in spic-and-span York rush hour traffic, then takes the keys down of the ignition.
Buddy refuses to return the keys to Dave until they sing a few verses of "I Feel Pretty" from WEST broadside STORY: http://www.westsidestory.com/site/level2/lyrics/pretty.html
They sing while New Yorkers drive around them cursing, noisy and making impolite gestures.
This illustrates that you can DO things to change your mood. Take action. Drive slower. Sing. Distraction is one of the best tools to change your angry mood.
I may never be able to have a good road rage again, just rational of those cardinal singing "I FEEL PRETTY" with the full chorus and orchestra future up in the background...it’s active to be woody even in Houston traffic where barbellate "red necks" in pickup trucks are ready to shoot you for cutting in front of them.
This summer I am barbellate with the lyrics and the tape of WEST SIDE STORY queued up and ripe to sing to those hot and bothered chromatic necks when it is 100 degrees and the humidity is 98%. I can hardly wait.
I feel pretty,
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