I recently heard some people talking about a survey that said women have more road rage than men. I consider road rage to be acting out on the anger you have when driving. I'm not sure if that's everyone's definition of it, but it seems to make sense to me. Based on my definition, I have observed way more men than women with road rage.
When you think about driving in New Jersey, you expect rudeness (even though we didn't make this list at travelandleisure.com). I was on my 12th jughandle of the day the other day, Route 35 to be exact, and it was packed. All the ingredients to get into one of those bad "I'm driving in NJ" moods, and then it happened. Someone...maybe you should sit down....let me in! I was so shocked I a
Did you ever notice some otherwise nice, sweet Monmouth and Ocean County residents change when they get behind the wheel? I thought about it the other day when I was driving on the Parkway around exit 109. I was in the right lane and a guy in an SUV was the left lane. When we both tried to get in the middle lane at exactly the same time, we saw each other and slid back into our lanes. We glanced a
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It's the most wonderful time of the year, unless you have a lot of gifts to buy, a lot of shopping to do, and not a lot of time to get it all done. I've seen the tension on the roads of Monmouth and Ocean Counties already this season. Drivers are a little more likely to cut you off or speed past you these days because of all the stress and time pressures they face.