Sometimes it feels like we’re losing the ability to empathize with each other.  Road rage, entitlement, me, me, me.  Recently, I was heading into a store and someone locked their car with that annoying car beep right as I was passing it.  I am extremely sensitive to noise, so it caused me to involuntarily flinch.  The person noticed, so their reaction was to beep the lock again.  I ended up going into the store right before them, and held the door for them.  Their look of surprise was worth pushing down the urge to let the door slam in the guy’s face.  Even though this is a pretty minor incident, it has me thinking about why this person felt the need to deliberately antagonize someone because they flinched at noise. I thought this would be a perfect subject for some prompts, so let’s take a deep breath and look at things from another perspective.  Both of these prompts are based on actual experiences I have had.

Write each of these prompts from both perspectives. 

PT Prompt #225:

It’s rush hour and one driver is trying to turn right onto a busy 6-lane street.  A second driver doesn’t let them in, and driver one gets annoyed.  Later, on the same street, there is construction which has two lanes closed, causing drivers in those lanes to have to merge into the one open lane.  Now the tables are turned, and driver two needs driver one to let them merge.  What happens next?

PT Prompt #226:

Two people are in a car – one driver and one passenger.  The passenger is known to get carsick quite easily, which is made worse in stop-and-go traffic.  At a stoplight, the driver looks the passenger in the eye as they repeatedly creep forward, then put the brakes on.  They passenger asks them to please stop, and they don’t.  What is the passenger's reaction?  Why is the driver behaving this way? 

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