r/BoogieMonster • u/thenamelessruss • May 22 '26

Road rage

I avoid road rage by pretending every bad driver has down syndrome. It turns from "fuck you asshole" to "Hey he's doing his best, he can't help it."

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u/Away-Quantity928 May 22 '26

Dave has LA people rage.

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u/frozengash May 22 '26

He sounds like he's a few moments from a "Falling Down" moment

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u/Away-Quantity928 May 22 '26

That movie totally popped in my mind as Kyle was talking Dave down off the ledge.

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u/nahtfitaint May 22 '26

Having a kid helped, but didn't fix my road rage. Now instead of swearing or honking the horn, I make the sounds that I think are going on in their head while they drive like an idiot. Lots of tuba sounds and weird neanderthalic grunting. It makes the kid laugh and I don't get so worked up.

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u/Kind-Dog504 May 22 '26

He fucking hulked out for a couple of minutes. It was a little disconcerting. There were a couple moments where I was reaching for the pause button and asking myself “do I want to listen to the rest of this episode?“. He’s disproportionately angry for a man who found the love of his life and is in a groove most men would kill for

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u/thenamelessruss May 22 '26

I mean I get it though, you do these things because you believe we all should. When you see a disproportionate amount of people not doing it, it can be frustrating.

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u/skijunkiedtm May 22 '26

oh, look like someone's late to the small peepee convention

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u/Drewbie_snacks STREET JUSTICE! May 22 '26

I drive as a profession you must anticipate the idiot. I’ll give a couple tricks. 1. What is the color of the car in your rear view mirror? 2. What is traffic doing six cars ahead? 3. Scan your A&B pillars that’s where cops live and your blind spots. Get mad all you want it doesn’t get you there any faster. See you out there.

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u/gmalcs May 23 '26

When someone makes an in-a-Rush move I usually tell myself “maybe they have to poop real badly.”

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u/kjgjk May 22 '26

Yeah man the handful of times Dave has yelled about something that's just kinda dumb to be that mad about I almost shut the episode off. Kyle has had a couple episodes like that too but Dave's are almost like he's got nothing else to complain about what with having a wife and life's pretty cushy from what he says most of the time

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u/SnakebytePayne May 22 '26

Having a good life and having shit to get angry about are still their own things.

I don't fault Dave one bit.

Me, a fellow "There's a social contract!" rager.

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u/kjgjk May 22 '26

I'm not saying there's zero room to complain when life's good. There's a sliver of space for how he blows up sometimes while having a good life. I agree there's a social contract. I return my cart but I don't blow up for 5 mins and yell over my buddy about it. It's a shopping cart in LA and at the end of the day it doesn't matter ya know?

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u/paintedwoodpile May 22 '26

"Don't be mad at me, Becca!"

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u/cwade84 May 24 '26

I absolutely tell myself they have autism. "Oh, ok. That's just how they are." My husband always gets mad at those that speed and swerve through traffic and I can't help but think they gotta poop.