California resident cuts off truck driver in traffic, driver follows him to pizza spot, thinking he's a "delivery boy" and tries to get him fired: 'I don't work here'

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  A man wearing sunglasses and a flannel sits in the driver's seat of his bright blue truck.

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• Guy I cut off in traffic follows me to my "job" to try and get me fired.

  
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  A man wearing sunglasses and a flannel shirt stands in front of his blue truck.

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• While we are sympathetic to the fact that no one likes to be cut off in traffic, that is about where our sympathy for the truck driver in this story ends. It's one thing to show your disapproval at what the author attempted to do on the road and in the moment. This is partially what honking your horn is for. However, this driver ended up taking what should have just been one honk into a full-blown road rage incident.

  Thankfully, the driver ended up eating his own words by the end of this encounter. Not only was he entirely in the wrong for following the resident, but he also fully mistook him for a deliveryman. I guess the resident's eccentric Mario-esque look paid off. 

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• As is the case with most road rage incidents, there is something deeper going on in this truck driver's psyche. First of all, the author even mentions how he seemed to be overcompensating for something based on the sheer size of his monster truck alone, not to mention his over-the-top aggression. 

  Yes, the author had a lapse in judgment when he was trying to maneuver his way out of traffic, but it sounds like if anyone else were in his position, they would have tried to do the same thing. Besides, nobody got hurt, and that should count for something, especially after the author expressed his apologies for what could have transpired.

  At the end of the day, the bigger lapse in judgment here was the truck driver's choice to follow this dude all the way to his pizza spot. Hopefully, he felt embarrassed enough after he learned that the author was not, in fact, an employee there.

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