If you're edgy while driving, you're probably not a damn good driver.The highways are dangerous places. I'm edgy on the freeways, on any road where you're driving over 30mph. You don't know what addled people are out there, what they're doing. Cell phones, kids in the car, drugs, distractions, impatient drivers by the dozens, immature drivers by the score, unpredictable often challenging road conditions, things falling off trucks, pot holes (they can be damn big around here).
I'm a damn good driver but I know it's goddamn dangerous out there. Of course, you could always be 10 seconds away from death when in a motor vehicle. I think of that when driving.
A big local story the last couple days is a guy who took an Uber in San Francisco the other day. A car stolen on Jan. 12 collided with the Uber. The passenger died, the driver is in the hospital. The guy driving the stolen car took it on the lamb and they're looking for him.
The guy driving the stolen car took it on the lamb and they're looking for him.
I know several women who refuse to drive on highways. My mother and mother in law included.If you're edgy while driving, you're probably not a damn good driver.
No crap, you could get COVID from a trucker.I was beside a 18wheeler on the highway and I thought "I could end it all right now" is NOT a suicidal thought?!
Honestly, anyone who feels nervous driving at or around the speed limit should not be driving. Period. Speed limits are calibrated for the worst drivers among us.I know several women who refuse to drive on highways. My mother and mother in law included.
Half a century of driving and they will take side streets to get from point a to point b even if it means adding an hour of travel time to what would normally be a short hop.
Also seems plenty of city folk panic as soon as well as the speeds go past 50
No accidents since the 1960's, no moving violations either. I'm just on edge at high speeds with traffic around me, I think it's appropriate. I'm not panicky, my heart rate doesn't go up AFAIK, I'm just "be aware, a tenth of a second reaction time could be the difference between life and death," which is indisputable. I don't avoid the freeway unless it's raining (or I have reason to believe it may be bumper to bumper) then I sometimes do.If you're edgy while driving, you're probably not a damn good driver.
There is a LOT more to qualifying as a "damn good driver" than that.No accidents since the 1960's, no moving violations either. ...
Care to specify? Anyway, I think I am. I don't even have close calls. That's my measure of a damn good driver, avoid situations where I could have an accident. No dings on my car, either.There is a LOT more to qualifying as a "damn good driver" than that.
Making sure you do not inconvenience other drivers more than absolutely necessary is rule #1 after safety. If I have to even think about tapping my brakes because of someone who is only concerned about themselves and nobody else on the road, that someone is a bad driver no matter how clean their record is.Care to specify? Anyway, I think I am. I don't even have close calls. That's my measure of a damn good driver, avoid situations where I could have an accident. No dings on my car, either.
Or maybe your idea of a damn good driver is Nascar.
There is a LOT more to qualifying as a "damn good driver" than that.
Like I told my dad one day while I was driving us around, you can tell a lot about a person by the way they drive, just observing their vehicle. He wholeheartedly agreed. My dad was a great driver who took a lot of pride in it. You can read a person's mindset by the way they drive.Yeah, I could make the same claim.
Honestly, just as you can tell a politician is lying because his lips are moving, you can tell a bad driver, because they are behind the wheel of a motorised vehicle.
It could be an intrusive thought, it's not necessarily suicidal ideation simply because the thought occurs.
If there weren't that cyclone fence between me and that tiger it could have my head in its mouth in 5 seconds.Call of the void / intrusive thought.
It's common, documented, and normal.