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@BrickMan
short angry man with an even short temper driving a landcruiser? Defenatly inverted penis syndrome.
as a country boy I used to find driving in UK cities pretty stressful and often coming into conflict with people like that, but now I'm older and wiser (mid twenties) and have driven in some of the worst cities in the world, I find almost anything in the UK a breeze*.
*if you find yourself down town in some random south american/ indian/ asian city apart from the fact people are coming at you every angle, they are very easy to understand, all they want to do is more the front corner of their car forwards, nothing else matters. But more importantly what I've noticed is almost everyone drives like that, and NOBODY gets angry, even when there is the occasional bumper scrape, they just get on with it, because its normal fayre for them.
You go somewhere like a sleepy mid Canadian town or remote Scandinavian town and they give way to each other, occasionally have a little a chat alongside whilst waiting at the lights.
But here in the Uk the only thing that makes it sometimes difficult to drive is you have this dangerous mix of laid back don't care/ laid back can't drive/ plain old cannot drive/ I can drive inverted penis 4x4 short men/ plain old angry drivers/ plain old normal drivers/ damn cyclists (has to be said)/ and oaps and inexperienced drivers also wanting their part of the action.
What you end up with is a bankrupt rock in the north atlantic full of angry and inexperienced drivers all getting even more angry at each other for no forward gain.
so when out and about in traffic I just throw some music on and ignore everyone else, they can get angry at themselves, meanwhile I'm virtually horizontal with some Quantic.