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The road is not a neutral place. You can't pull out into the world four wheels forward and expect it to be like Sweden, or Switzerland, or whatever country you want to choose to represent neutrality (we must have been daydreaming about doing burnouts during that lesson). As soon as you begin interacting with other drivers, you're forced to react behind the wheel. Some people are calm and collected, even when nothing is going their ways. Other people, however, have quick tempers and are ready to pull out their custom spiked baseball bat they store in their trunks at the first sign of an idiotic driver.
The emotional spectrum while driving ranges from anger to happiness to apprehension to fear. And all of those emotions can happen within a two-second span. To represent the events of cruising the streets, and to poke fun at people's ridiculous reactions, we've collected a group of GIFs to express how things usually happen. These are The Emotions of Driving, in GIFs.
When a cop tickets you over for going five over the speed limit
When somebody takes up two parking spaces
When somebody tries to squeeze in in front of you
When somebody doesn't understand the rules of an intersection
When somebody is going under the speed limit
When you see your dream car in the wild
When you race yourself to work and beat your best time
When you're ridin' 'round and gettin' it
When you're getting into your car and notice a scratch
When somebody tries to race you
When you're driving to the beach on your day off
When you see somebody driving down the wrong side of the road
When you're waiting at a light and see somebody cross the street on a Segway
When your battery dies in the middle of nowhere at 1 a.m. with a blizzard on the way
When somebody is tailing you
When your friend pulls up in his new car, which happens to be a Pontiac Sunfire
When you hit every green light
When somebody tries to hijack your car
When you find a booger while vacuuming the back seat
When somebody farts in your car
When the girl of your dreams is in the front seat
When your jam comes on the radio
When somebody insults your car while you're driving him or her somewhere
What you want to do to somebody who cuts you off
When you're two minutes away from the destination and your friend texts you, "change of plans"
When somebody asks to drive your car
When you're forced to let somebody sober drive you home after a night of drinking
How you feel at the beginning of a road trip
How you feel at the end of a road trip
When you're getting road head
When you beat somebody to the good parking spot
When you're using a car fueled by biodiesel
Stage one of somebody hitting your car
Stage two of somebody hitting your car
Stage three of somebody hitting your car
What it's like when you get lost
How you feel when you realize you're lost
How you feel riding in your friend's Yugo
When you finally figure out how to work the touch screen
When somebody tries to touch your radio
When you see rims on a minivan
How you feel when you just beat an entire Gran Turismo video game
When your hypocritical parent tries to tell you how to drive
When you see a really cute girl in the car next to you
How you wish you acted when you see a cute girl next to you
When you successfully reach your driveway after drunk driving
When somebody honks at you at a stoplight from eight cars back
When you see somebody hit a car and drive away
When you see a Lamborghini pull up in front of you
When somebody passes everybody using the exit lane
