Aggressive Leapfrogging Douche in Honda Civic SI

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Being stuck in bumper-to-bumper rush hour traffic sucks…I totally get it. Once, coming back from a wedding in New Jersey, it took 2 1/2 hours to move 8 city blocks while we approached the Holland Tunnel to get back into New York. On Friday, moving along Ventura in Studio City wasn’t nearly as bad, but I’m sure anyone who was commuting from the West Side to the Valley was already at his wit’s end and just wanted to get home. Well, tearing up the roads whenever you get an opening off a major thoroughfare is the easiest way to frack up the tail end of your commute. This douchebag in a Honda Civic SI (license plate 6AXJ) made a right off of Ventura onto Whitsett behind me and started to gun it and try to pass me on my right despite the fact that there is essentially only one through lane (and a very wide curb lane, though not wide enough to squeeze a passing car) going north. On not one but two separate occasions, he nearly collided into parked cars in his impatient attempt to leapfrog. I figured that this moron wanted to pass me so badly that I slowed up before approaching Moorpark so that he could move in front, which he most certainly did (without signaling of course) closer to my front bumper than was really necessary. Was he trying to make some juvenile statement with his vehicle? Who knows, since I wasn’t exactly trying to race him while going 40 (how nitro of us!) up Whitsett. I saw this guy speed and pass other drivers a few more times (again, without signaling), only to stop at the same red light as me for the next few blocks. I suppose the takeaway from all of this is that whenever we feel the urge to unleash our commuting frustrations on others, let’s remind ourselves that such aggressive, asinine driving almost never makes a tangible difference on our travel times.