A Poem to Apologize to Other Drivers

Listeners are still sending us suggestions for how to apologize to another driver in traffic.

You know, for example, if you cut them off, do you gesture? How do you communicate to those people? And by gesture, we mean not the middle finger, but the polite. That’s right. How do you do it politely?

And we got a suggestion from Vasily Sharapov, who lives in Waltham, Massachusetts. And his suggestion, if you cut somebody off in traffic, is to flash your lights once. But Vasily went further than that. He wrote a poem just for us, and I wanted to share it with you.

If you’ve offended your fellow man while driving on the highway, you merely lapsed your attention span and wished to tell them some way. Be not mistaken for troglodytes with this kind intervention. A single flash of the hazard lights will speak to your intention.

Oh, that’s nice. Yeah. Very good. Yeah, I appreciate he took the time to spell it out that way.

Yeah, when it’s dark or twilight, I sometimes do a flash of the lights, a flash of the brights to say, go ahead or okay or I see you. So, yeah, that would work. There’s kind of a one-note positive message when you flash your lights.

Yeah, yeah. We can all use more civility on the roadways, right? Yeah, we’d still love to hear what you do when you just want to, you know, do a positive acknowledgement to the other driver that, yeah, I know I messed up, but I didn’t mean it. It’s nothing personal.

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