SOMETIMES EVEN CHRISTIAN RADIO STATIONS DON'T HELP

I've freely admitted that I get upset by drivers. They seem to be so self-centered anymore. I've written about how they tailgate, how they change lanes on a whim, how they will cut you off, how they will leave you stranded when you need to change lanes and properly signal.

But there's one time that they don't need to bother to signal because I will cut them no slack; I will become one of the enemy. That's when there is ample notification by signage than one lane is ending and a merge will soon be necessitated.

And they keep driving in the lane that will end. When they horn in at the last minute and make the patient law-abider allow them access.

It happened to me yesterday. A huge truck pulling something called a Sandpiper literally ran me off the road into another lane. We were inches from his Sandpiper when at the last second I realized he would hit me.

Even while tuned to a K-LOVE radio station playing Contemporary Christian Music, I was enraged. The only possible explanation is he was from Africa where the rule of the land while we were on safari a few years back was the biggest in the jungle rules. No exceptions /no apologies. But still.

While listening to Christian radio helps my temperament, it's no panacea. If there was a positive to be taken it was that my wife saw that after the incident, I didn't try to get even; I didn't try to cut him off. I let it go. Well, sort of.