The other day I was with my kids in the McDonald's drive-through - it was one of those two-lane ones - and the person in the other lane was merging into the my lane so he could pay and get his food. He wasn't paying attention at all and stood there for a while letting a gap form between him and the car in front of him.
Now, I don't yell at people from my car, but I do get frustrated with bad drivers and I usually mumble something to myself (never bad words, luckily - not even something like "turkey-butt" like my dad used to). So I'm grumbling about how he's not paying attention and my son starts like chewing him out in his 3-year old way. "Move forward, geez. Hey, go to the white car. Ahhh," etc. My wife and I started laughing and he just kept going.
Even when the guy finally closed the gap, my son was still laying into him. We had to explain that the person was now as far ahead as he could be and it was OK to calm down.
First of all, it's scary how much you have to watch what you do and say around your kids. Luckily we don't swear or anything, so we don't have to watch ourselves: it's who we are. But even in those little things like how we treat people on the road, they are watching and they will learn from who you are.
Turns out he gets the frustrated "Ahhh" from my wife; I heard her use it today which I hadn't really noticed before. But the rest of his rant was probably from me. And you know what, he's already changing the world, because can you guess who is going to be a much nicer motorist from now on?
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