You need to start forwarding your wife all the articles on people getting killed over road rage.
She's aware of that... but it's not HER problem if they flip out or get violent. There's a bit of a logical disconnect there.
Yeah, she's a Democrat. Even volunteered to work on McCain's 2000 campaign staff.
We've talked about this before. She was riding in the left lane, doing the speed limit, for mile after mile on the expressway one day not more than 3-4 car lengths away from a car in the right lane. I told her she should move over. Nope! No way! I tried explaining that people like her add 10 minutes to my commute (110 miles a day when I actually go to the office) for such antics. Wouldn't move. Maybe 10 miles later she finally got over.
We have two totally different views on driving courtesy. I have been honked at twice in the past year. I handle them entirely different.
The first was leaving the parking lot of the local Meijer. We were chatting so I wasn't as attentive as I usually am. We were in the parking lot making a left turn onto the road behind two other cars. Some idiot pulled up behind me in the left turn lane and decided he needed to go right. He honked at me because he didn't have enough room to get out from behind me and I didn't move ahead when I noticed him turn his blinker on. Took me a while to figure out why he honked because the idiot had a good quarter mile of parking lot behind him that he could have backed up into to get off my bumper. There was no reason for anybody to move on his behalf. I moved forward 6 inches to the thanks of "F---ing a-hole!!" as he pulled around me. Damned college kids.
The second was last week. I make a right on red into a two lane divided highway and take the far lane. Only one lane turns into this road so I can pick where I go and I'm making a "Michigan Left" where you do the right-turn, left-turn dance across a divided highway. When I merge into the turn lane somebody honks at me. The guy behind me also made a right on red, or perhaps the light went green when I pulled through, and he made a beeline for that left turn lane and managed to get there right about the same time I did. I had cut him off. Entirely my fault, but it's not common for somebody to drive that aggressively. Unless it went green the instant I hit the accelerator he broke some kind of traffic law to get into that position. I got the frick out of his way and locked the door when I saw we'd be sitting a red light together.