During this time of intense emotions and animosity towards one another, it might make a difference to take some time to empathize and to consider guessing the stories/drivers behind someone’s attitudes and behaviors. Here are two examples of how I have done it using the "Maybe Game".
On a narrow one-lane road, driving to the ferry to head back to Seattle after a weekend away, we encountered a car that was not moving fast enough. I noticed they were moving close to the speed limit, and not at the unwritten rule of driving 5 mph above the limit or faster. As my husband started to get annoyed about it, since he had a meeting to go to back in Seattle and we couldn’t miss the ferry, I decided to distract him by coming up with reasons why the car in front of us kept that speed: