Short Story- The Road Rage

Very Short Story - The Road Rage
(This Short Story blog article falls into Short, Funny, Hilarious, Thrilling, Offbeat, Quick to Read Stories category as per author.)

He was driving his new SUV not at very fast pace and was in very good mood as he was playing his favorite album on car stereo. After last night’s jamboree, he was coming back to his home. The morning zephyr was feeling so good from car’s open window. The day was perfect for a long drive, so he decided on taking a detour to his home and was moving on the outer ring road of the city which allowed him to eschew all the morning time traffic of the city. He was lost in the thought and was not aware of occasional overtakes of the vehicles coming from the behind. He was in no mood to compete with any of those tearaways, which was preternatural for his behavior. He reached to one point on the road which appeared to be a cul-de-sac from a distance but was actually a blind 90 degree turn and probably the most dangerous junction on that outer ring road for no median on that part of the road. Vehicles should be very slow on this part of the road, as road side sign also indicates and forewarns about the dangerous section; Any vehicle coming fast from the opposite side can very well slew and get into the other side of the road and that’s what exactly happened when he reached that junction. A car came from opposite direction almost running into his SUV. He could see there was only one person inside the car (the driver)and that driver did not bother to apologize for his mistake, and that made his even more incensed. The other car continued as if nothing had happened and this was enough for him to get upset. He steered his SUV to make a U-turn and was raged so much that he started following that car. Lots of thoughts were coming in his mind and he was a well built guy with more than 6 feet height. He thought of stopping the car by overtaking it and then stopping in front of the car. He had decided to give the driver his comeuppance by thrashing him properly. He realized that car driver would have seen him following and that’s why the car is now moving at higher speed. He could not accept his defeat and was full with road-rage; accelerated his SUV to reach to top speed.
There might be a common occasions of death following the victim but there would certainly be very rare occasions of death running away but the victim following him from behind. The SUV overtook the car at last and stopped immediately in front of the car, forcing the car driver to jam his car’s brake. With the screeching sound the car stopped just 10 inch away from the rear bumper of the SUV. He could see from the windshield of the car that the driver was hardly five and half feet, slender guy; looking benign to him at that point of time. He had decided to teach a proper lesson to this two bit guy. He moved close to the driver door of the car but realize a dead body lying in the rear of the car soiled with blood all over the cloth. Before he could understand anything the shot gun’s muzzle was on his temple. All he could remember, before hearing the shot of the gun, was a display placard somewhere on the same road stating “Anger is one letter away from Danger.”



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