They arrive from the highways of San Antonio, where it is 91 degrees outside, and there is construction on the roads, and cellphones are ringing, talk radio is blaring, people are tailgating, no one will let anyone into their lane, horns start honking, middle fingers go up, car doors fly open, and another day of road rage is underway in an increasingly angry country.
Now, in a small classroom on the edge of the city, Dean DeSoto, 70, looks over a roster for his class on aggressive driving.
"Good morning," he said, as 19 people walk into the room looking the way they usually do at the start of class. Tired, annoyed, blank. Most of them don't want to be here, and DeSoto knows this. They are here because they have been ticketed, fined and sent here by a judge to learn how to manage their anger and anxiety on the road. They take their seats, and he begins to read aloud from a list of their citations, most of which look like speeding violations.
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