Pedestrian rage

today at MacDonalds a man put a foot on the white lines of the pedestrian crossing and even though he wasn’t near my car he hurried up to my window and hurled abuse at me. It was unnecessary and very aggresive. I always did think it a bit odd that we put definitions on rage depending on where it happened and the circumstances. Road rage and in this case pedestrian rage. I read in the news recently about a man who used his ute to repeatedly ram a car with young children in it. He killed the young driver and probably gave the kids a trauma disorder for the rest of their lives. Over what? Cutting him off at the lights?

Thankfully, in this case, he was charged with murder. How will he explain that to his own kids?

~ by longjump on October 21, 2007.