2026-02-08 – News – www.theguardian.com
Slow down, take a deep breath, maybe even let the other car take the park. In the face of rudeness, sometimes the most radical thing to do is remain passively polite
Think of a typical day in our angry world. You open social media and read abuse either directed at yourself or someone else, then you get in your car and find yourself aggressively overtaken while driving at the speed limit. You pull into a shopping mall car park, where another driver executes a fast three-point turn to take your park, and then shouts a stream of abuse when you honk.
You find another park but your car gets damaged by a rogue trolley rolling into it; its previous user couldn’t be bothered putting it away.
