I have been driving Massachusetts highways and seeing a lot of angry, aggressive drivers: tailgating, cutting people off. I don't mind the speed so much if I can see them coming and they leave room for others. I would like to blame drivers from the Commonwealth, but an unfortunate number are large pickups from New Hampshire. It's the same back home. Sports cars used to be the main problem, but pickups and very expensive cars seem to be the deal now.
Of course, this does raise the question: Is this problem their aggression or my bad driving?
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"I would like to blame drivers from the Commonwealth, but an unfortunate number are large pickups from New Hampshire"
Depending upon the route, I could imagine that the majority of large newish pickups with NH registrations are driven by people who learned to drive in their former home of MA
It seemed to me that it got worse after the lockdowns. During them, the roads around here were pleasantly empty. Perhaps people got used to speeding and California stops when there was no risk in doing it, and take the renewed crowding as an imposition.
Or perhaps those Chicago&Milwaukee drivers who could work from home moved elsewhere and took their city "devil take the hindmost" driving habits with them.
I am thinking that it is on the highways, where people in pickup-related lives would have still had to be during Covid, less able to work from home, might have had things happen just as you said. They got used to the commute taking 40 minutes and are outraged that it's 60 minutes now. When we get used to something like that it's hard to give it up. Even though we haven't earned it in any way, we feel we are entitled to it.
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