Rush hour craziness

Man, the loonies were on the road this morning. The usual types of people that are in a big hurry to get somewhere and drive 5 mph faster than everyone else. Changing lanes alot and cutting off other drivers. A pickup and a Cadillac were running together and cut in front of us. The truck slammed on his brakes to keep from rear-ending the car in front of him. Of course, the Cadillac tailgating the truck slammed on her brakes. I had to slam on my brakes. Debbie said her heart almost stopped. Somehow I managed not to rear-end the Cadillac and not get rear-ended by the Nissan following me too closely. For the next several miles, this ridiculous racing and suddenly slamming on their brakes occurred repeatedly. Eventually, the truck changed lanes and as we were passing him, Debbie rolled down her window and flipped him the bird. LMAO!! Finally made it to the exit to go to her office without another incident. We made it a couple of blocks from her office and a car comes racing up behind us. The driver swerved at the last second to avoid hitting us. As he's going around us, we saw that his right front tire was flat and he is driving on the rim! I'm driving about 30 mph and he's going much faster than that. Not sure he knew he had a flat the way he was driving. Interesting start to the day.

Debbie's road rage reminded me of a story she told about her, Tara, Megan and Kelsey on a trip through OKC several years ago when they had a road rage incident. I'm a not entirely sure who started what, but apparently there were many expletives verbalized by people in our car toward a guy and his gal in the other car. Either Debbie chased the other car or the other car chased Debbie. Eventually, they all ended up taking an exit ramp off of I-35. The guy in the other car hit a trailer being pulled by a pickup. The driver of the pickup apparently was a pretty big guy who didn't seem too happy about the wreck. I don't remember the specifics of the story, so Debbie and Tara will have to provide the details. I do remember that Debbie was driving the brand new Mazda 6. I remember hearing that Tara was dropping some f-bombs. Knowing Megan and Kelsey, they were too. Dunno why Debbie talks like that around them... Anyway, Debbie told the girls not to tell me what happened. Several years after the incident, Debbie spilled the beans. Not entirely sure I've heard the whole story, but I realized my wife and daughters might have worse road rage than I do. At least I don't chase people all over the place although there might be a bird or two flying... and some salty language. LOL.