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The Man With The Cap



It was hot as the devil’s ass, and Matt Mathews was stuck on interstate-13 on his way to Ohio. All he wanted for the weekend was some rest and relaxation, but until now all he had got was traffic, traffic and more traffic. Not to mention wise-cracking teens in flashy sport cars overtaking him. Just as this thought crossed his mind a teen in a brand new white Ford Mustang Shelby sped past him in the hard shoulder and took up what little space he had kept in front of his old stuttering ’98 model Chevrolet. In spite of the apparent lack of road manners the kid proceeded to shoot his mouth off at him. “What kind of piece of crap junk is that? Do you call that a ride old man?” the kid shouted through the open window of his Mustang.

He looked up through the dusty windshield of his car.

STAY CALM...BE COOL
ROAD RAGE DOES NO ONE GOOD

Proclaimed a flashy banner with a good looking guy flashing a million buck smile and showing a big thumbs up at you behind the wheels of his brand new car, so did everyone else behind him. That was the case in the banner. Matt looked around him at the other cars stuck in the traffic, he was pretty sure flashing a smile and thumbs up where the last things on their minds at the moment. More likely swearing and flashing the bird at you were the primary objectives in their minds. The car right next to him on the lane was a huge SUV, at its wheel sat a middle aged woman, dressed in a suit, with a headset screwed into her ear, yammering non-stop into it. She was also waving about her hands in the air, complaining about the god damn traffic and how she is going to miss her god damn appointment and how the god damn guy in front of her isn’t moving a god damn foot, to whoever was on the other end of her tiny headset screwed into her ear. She surely was getting pretty worked up.

The kid in the Mustang was blasting his horn now to...