OT - So what is your breaking point?

Submitted: Wednesday, Jan 03, 2007 at 13:13
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Post 40817 reminds me of a bit of car park rage that occurred whilst visiting friends in Sydney. The similarity for me is that perfectly rational law abiding people have a snapping point and that this point is being tested by out of control morons all the time.

In my case, I was a passenger in a car in which the driver, a pacifist/ fun loving guy, had a parking space stolen by some smart ar$e. I have never seen him snap in 40 years so I was totally surprised when he jumped out of the car and gave this guy a load of verbal abuse that would have made Mel Gibson proud. I think it came within seconds of becoming a physical confrontation.

My point is that we all seem to have a breaking point and that it is impossible to judge how we will behave when that point is reached. It seems to comes back to a general lack of manners, dicipline etc that is encouraged by the educated elite as being good for a childs development. Personally I think a clip around the ear when these idiots were growing up would have prevented the problem from being one in the first place.

Then there is the next issue, to what extent can you support such behaviour? In my case I could have been faced with having to join in on a scuffle over a pointless car space or possibly lose a friendship – fortunately we were able to laugh it off.

So what would you have done? (my 24 yr old son, who fortunately wasn’t there at the time suggested that we should have dragged him out of the car to teach him a lesson)

Kind regards
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