whoa step back

I was on facebook and happened to look at the waiting status update space...what's on my mind? funny you should ask facebook-
I'm just thinking about how I DON'T UNDERSTAND IRRATIONAL PEOPLE.  you know who I'm talking about.  People who fly off the handle over nothing.  People who go from 0-60 in one second.  People who can actually scream publicly and NOT feel embarrassed.  Who are these people?! I don't understand.  I mean...I can have a temper but I am not able to lose all inhibitions enough to yell at someone I don't even know much less someone I know...I may get a tone in my voice but flat out yell/scream?? how do you do that?
I actually started thinking about this last night when code and I were watching parenthood (we just started and they're on netflix so we're in the 2nd season).  In this show there are a LOT of screaming matches between people where they are yelling at each other at the same time (clearly not listening to the other) and then they both stop magically at the same time out of breath and just staring at each other in silence and it always goes 0-60 in no time flat.....and both code and I were like....."honestly, who does this?"  Well...I know our neighbors do this-we hear them yelling all the time (esp at their kids-it's really sad).
I started thinking about this again today when I was leaving our apartment complex to go to the bank.  It can be kinda confusing cause there's a main-ish road out of our complex that's not exactly straight (it curves around groups of apartment buildings), but it's clearly the main road cause there aren't any stop signs along it and then there are roads that branch off of this main one that do have stop signs.

So I'm going along and come to a part where the main road kind of curves a little where another road intersects.  So you can turn a lil bit to keep going straight on the road-follow it as it were- or turn 90 degrees to the left or right-but there's no stop sign for the main road.  So there's a car coming from the other way on the main road at this same moment.  Since they weren't signaling at all I assumed they were going to continue to go straight on this main road and I continue to turn with the road to keep going on it, when they sort of pull into the middle of the road acting like they want to turn to their left (my right) and so I just keep going (I don't have a stop sign and I assume that if you're going to turn you should yield to oncoming traffic-maybe I'm wrong about that??).  Well this girl slams on their breaks all dramatic like-her window is down and starts FREAKING OUT as I'm passing her.  I didn't really make eye contact cause I frankly didn't want to lip read what she was saying-not that I'd need to cause she was screaming at me (literally) and flailing her arms all around (prolly flipping me off) going crazy.  I looked in my rearview mirror after I passed her and kept going and she was still stopped (apparently another car was behind me and she waited for them too) and then turned......


WOW........
So I realized it's prolly pretty hard to tell what i'm talking about so I included a diagram...cause who doesn't love a good diagram:  (the stop signs are only for the people coming off those side roads

I was so shocked that she acted like that.  First of all, it's not a big deal-didn't even come close to hitting each other, and even if I was in the wrong (which I wasn't technically, she was just impatient), what...you had to wait 2 extra sec for me to pass?  big deal!  But you'd think that I had ran over her child the way she was carrying on.  Granted she was pretty young-around my age or younger I think...but still....where do people come off???

Even if I am mad I say a lil zinger to myself and move on-I'd never think of freaking out on someone like that.  The saddest part is that people like that who really need a talking to-to help them realize how crazy they look, are the LAST ones to listen.  If I had stayed and tried to "talk" to her I would have gotten cussed out further and prolly threatened to be honest-people like that seem to jump to violence pretty quick.

sheesh....it reminds me of my mission.  This is prolly the first time since my mission that I've experienced such an irrational reaction from someone.