I guess I'm back now.

I guess I'm over it. Can't always get my way even if it is the right way.
I think I've been doing good with my anger issues. I've been okay~not perfect but good.
My real trigger is people who drive 5 miles an hour. Philly has a street grid system and there are stop signs or a stop light on every block so you really can't go that fast anyway. I don't go fast. I go the speed limit~25mph. My skin starts to crawl when someone pulls in front of me and goes 5mph. Cause I know they're up there on their phone, playing with the radio, reading the paper or eating their breakfast/lunch/snack and I'm patient for about 2 blocks-thinking maybe they're just looking for a parking space but no, they stay in front of me and I pray "please, turn, please, turn, please turn..." 'cause I know if they don't~I'm going to start flipping out. Well, not really flipping out-just GRRRRRRRRRR and I hate getting GRRRRRRRRRRRRR 'cause it makes me feel like an idiot. Sometimes I'll start tailgating for awhile (we're only going 5mph!), hoping they get the point-but more times then not, they don't so I back off. Usually I turn and go down 2 blocks and keep going my way on another street-which, eventually some idiot pulls in front of me going 5 mph again.
I want to learn how to go 5mph without it irking me. How do they do it? Maybe I should bring a couple of magazines in the car with me and read while I'm driving like they do or play with a cell phone or bring my bag of make up and hair products and give myself a make over. ?????

Hi Pickle -- I agree that the really slow drivers can be irritating. I'm afraid of the phone drivers, because their screw-up rate is as high as drunks. Ways I adapt are listening to NPR, playing tapes, and praying.

I'm tried turning it into a game. If they drive slow, I can drive slower. Today I intentionally drove really slow behind a slow car to see how much distance I could get between them and I. I don't know why but this amused me enough not to get annoyed.

Good for you for finding something safe that works for you. Very clever.

I'm trying Wants. As long as I keep trying-eventually something is going to stick.

Hey Pickle,
When I am driving behind a really irritating driver or when someone is tailgating me, I IMAGINE that I had a paint ball gun and I IMAGINE that I open my sun roof and plaster their car with in and I try and visualize each color as it hits. Not a perfect way but if I try hard enough to visualize all the colors their car will be and how ticked off they will be and how hard they will have to work to clean the car off it sort of takes my mind off of being ticked off at their driving.

(((((((((((((( Pickle )))))))))))))