Confessions From a Portland Driver

I'm not really sure how it happened. Even now, it feels as if someone else inhabited my body for a moment. There I was, at an intersection. Nothing special about it. But when the left-turn light turned green, the car in front of me remained, well, immobile. I wanted to just give them a gentle reminder, a little nudge, but there is no soft-mute in a car, so the next thing I knew was I'm letting out this huge startling honk. It worked, it did the job as they say, but at what price? Was my need to make it through that intersection worth the panic that driver must have felt while I blurted behind them? Would it have really been such a big deal to wait a little?

To make ammends, I plan to stop on busy streets so that pedestrians can cross in front of me and to continue waving politely everytime anyone lets me in.