Attacked

Once, years ago, on a partic. bad day I banged on the window of some Merc and yelled because the guy had been basically trying to force me off the road as I wasn't accelerating quickly enough between traffic lights. I thought he'd ignored me, but he had actually decided to chase me about a mile to my place of work and try to run me off the road the entire time. I thought that I'd lost him, but after locking my bike up and walking to the front door of the office he suddenly pulled up, jumped out of the car and started trying to hit me in front of a startled group of colleagues screaming 'do you know who I am?' (I didn't).

Eventually he decided there were too many people watching and that he was holding up traffic, so he scarpered.

I got in shit from the grand poohbah of my then employer for sullying the working environment or some such.

So what is the lesson here ?

Don't shout at people who risk killing you to make their journey fractionally quicker in case you piss your boss off ?

Violence has unintended consequences, is all.

I am sure it does.

I also think that what you're advocating is mainly for your own benefit - it's pure catharsis, intended to make you feel better in the face of your powerlessness.

Partially, yes.

Fine - but that doesn't make it rational.

Nor does it make it irrational.