I CAN’T BELIEVE HOW RUDE PEOPLE HAVE BECOME BEHIND THE WHEEL! Where is everyone going in such a hurry? Is it really necessary to cut drivers off as one makes his/her way through traffic? Of course there have always been rude people, but it seems to me that it’s getting worse by the day. I can’t drive across town to pick up my wife from work without experiencing some form of idiotocracy. (Is that a word?). In any case, it has been said that if you really want to know what folks are like on the inside, just observe their driving habits.

Paul Harvey’s, “What It’s Worth Department” related a story from Hershey, Pennsylvania that serves as an example. It seems that a woman in a Mercedes had been waiting patiently for a parking place to open up. The shopping mall was crowded. She zigzagged between rows—then up ahead she saw a man with a load of packages head for his car.

She drove up and parked behind him and waited while he opened his trunk and loaded it with packages. Finally he got in his car and backed out of the spot. But before the woman in the Mercedes could drive into the parking place, a young man in a shiny new Corvette zipped past and around her and he pulled into the empty space and got out and started walking away.

“Hey!” shouted the woman in the Mercedes. “I’ve been waiting for that spot!” The young man said, “Sorry, lady; that’s how it is when you’re young and quick.”

At that instant she put her Mercedes in gear, floor-boarded it, and crashed into and crushed the right fender and corner panel of the flashy new Corvette. Now the young guy is jumping up and down shouting, “What’s the matter with you lady? You can’t do that!” The lady in the Mercedes said, “That’s how it is when you’re old and rich!”

Serves him right, don’t you think? Not really; I mean I’m not advocating revenge, but it is kind of funny.

So the next time you act like a jerk behind the wheel, just remember you might have to deal with a lady in a Mercedes.