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sooooooo... i'm driving my 4 year old, oscar, to nursery school this morning. we left in plenty of time, no really! & we were stuck in this traffic jam... i have no idea what caused it & i really didn't want him to be late for school. so we're sat there & oscar says what is this jam? honk the horn mum. i ask what good will honking the horn do & he replied to make them get out of out way!

i find it really funny how as soon as we get into a car & are surrounded with metal we would do things that we never normally would. lots of people become really aggressive, i've been the receiver of countless 'birds'! & have caused so much anger by wanting to switch lane, i'm indicating there's space but NO! people refuse to let you in... speed up in fact ~ doing that keeping my eyes straight ahead look, i can't see you! they would never need to get in another lane!!

what makes us like that? is it the fact that we can lock the doors & get away?

& what's with the picking the nose? it's like your fingers must have something else to do while driving & having a good old poke around the nostrils is the answer! just bear that in mind next time you have to borrow a car, the steering wheel is probably half made up of other people booggers!!

can you imagine if pushing a shopping cart had the same effect on us!! we'd be cutting each other off up aisles, yelling derogatory comments, honking the horn if you dared to stop & read a package. actually a horn would be great, some people are just so oblivious of blocking everyone's way!!


if we didn't have the metal around us we would basically be going along on armchairs & couches on wheels up the road.

since having kids i've really calmed my driving down... i try to leave in time & not make any crazy manoeuvres!! but it's nuts really, you can be driving along without a care in the world, but if you are late it's a totally different experience STRESS! the worst is when you are late & you're stuck behind the person who doesn't have a care in the world & isn't even doing the speed limit. you can almost hear them saying la la la la la as they're going along all calm & relaxed adding fuel to your fire!

i think we all take it turns with driving... either being the annoying person or being the annoyed person! when i see people arguing over a parking spot it looks really ridiculous!! but if that was my parking spot i'd be right there with the best of them!!

lets just stay safe ok!?