Seriously tho, what mentality do all of you go into traffic with?
I see people pass me on the road while I am already five miles over and wonder 'where's the fire'.
They may just be heading to something incredibly mundane. I also suspect that most people don't count timeliness a virtue. So then you have to wonder, why do people put themselves in that position? Why not budget time so they don't have to fight to get it back on the road. But then I think maybe it's the opposite. Maybe aren't fighting to get back time, but fighting to get more. But why? I mean they aren't going anywhere cool.
SO THEN I think maybe lots of drivers think they are entitled to win, or be first, or that they are in fact that only person on the road that actually knows how to drive. Could be they are just oblivious, lost in a cell-phone call or the last episode of a soap opera they watched on dvd.