I get madder at the people who slow down to gawk at accidents or stopped cars than I do at the ones who caused them. It’s a car, or maybe two cars, on the side of the road. We’ve all seen cars before- you’re seeing a lot of them in front of you and in your rearview mirror right now, dope. I’m pretty sure we’ve all seen cars pulled over to the side of the road before, too- walk down some city street where parallel parking is allowed, and you’ll see lots of them. So why do you feel like you have to slow down to take a look at what’s happening?
I don’t know about you, but I’ve got more interesting things to do at home or even at work than looking at stopped cars. Even cars that have been crunched in an accident. Get a life, stupid rubberneckers.
I’ve always wondered how much of it is legitimate rubbernecking, and how much of it is just the wave effect of unhurt cars having to slow to avoid the hurt ones, then the cars behind them having to slow, and the cars behind them, but then the first cars get to speed away, etc. It always seems like there is very little rubber necking when I pass wrecks and such at night or on smaller streets, any time there are fewer cars.
