Is my road rage really warranted?

I’ve driven on some of the most congested streets, highways and freeways in the western portion of the United States so I have had my fair share of “road rage.”

I 405 through Fountain Valley in Orange County, Calif., bottlenecks and keeps cars hardly moving for 210 minutes, on average, each day and a study conducted by Caltrans says that four mile stretch of interstate causes a delay for motorists of about 530,300 hours per year. Traffic so deep it would have me cursing Mickey Mouse.

But you don’t have to go to a huge city to drum up a case of road rage, no sir. Anyone who had e...