Simply Road Rage

Feeling like a total lame-o for hawking Vita coco when I could be talking about things way more interesting, I am breaking my rule of one blog post a day.... which is proving to be really hard since I want to just keep writing and writing and writing. I had a momentary lapse of Vita Coco need and all I could think of was VITA COCO and was consumed by the deliciousness of it.. Here is my actual story for today:

Imagine if you will, driving down a deserted road with tunes blaring, probably along the lines of Spice girls- spice up your life, while you are singing at the top of your lungs. Realizing you need to get over to turn in to whole foods to pick up some.....VITA COCO, you start merging over only to realize, HOLY CRAP WHERE DID YOU COME FROM, and a loud annoying HOOONK behind you. you just accidentally cut someone off. oops, my bad, oh well keep driving. The person behind you is now tailing you really close with an unhappy expression on their face, they don't bother with the turn signal as they cut into the next lane and speed up next to your car. They turn look at you, maybe give you a disappointed shake of their head, a finger, or an angry point , jab, arm motion. Then speed off and cut in front of you. It happens, we all experience it and sometimes are put in the position to do that exact thing. However since moving to Santa Monica and being honked at and cut off more than my whole life in one day. I noticed that people have a tendency to need to know who cut them off. Every single person I "accidentally" pissed off, would speed up next to me and then glare at me. Well excuse me if you wouldn't let me over you self imposed idiot! Granted I did cut you off , but those other time I didn't mean to!

haha...

Funny story: recently I started to get over in a lane and was half way over when a woman driving a mini van decided she wanted to get over too, so she sped up and had to slam on her brakes from hitting me, who was now almost fully in the lane. She honked at me then sped up and gave me her best mug, of you are a stupid teenager who needs to learn how to drive. I smiled at her and waved , only pissing her off even more. It wasn't my fault that she decided she wanted to get over as I was already two tires over the lane line.  Anyways the moral of these stories are.... well I don't know but if there was one it would be funny.  okay so maybe not that funny...

so basically I  want to know what compels road rage, cause i know i have it haha but when someone cuts you off , why do you need to feel the need to see who wronged you?

I Find that if i smile at them  they get caught off guard and their faces get slightly confused. I think next i'll make a funny face and see how they react to that.

Warning: please if anyone tries this experiment, don't throw up gang signs or hold up weapons of any kind, and no creepy smiles cause thats just creepy. be safe when cutting people off , and if you get angry please refrain from flipping your little birds .

I am not liable if anyone gets hurt .

This has been
             Simply Amanda

number of vita cocos in my fridge now = still 0 . still depressing.