You've most certainly seen at least one status update on Facebook involving an altercation on the road. But have you ever noticed this: Most people who play the shame game on social media tend to fault larger, more expensive, and luxurious cars for pissing you off on the road. What's with the discrimination? Everyone has been an asshole on the road at some point. So here's why you may need to pop a chill pill every once in awhile.

1. Fact of life: Any driver can be an asshole on the road.

Whether you're driving a Mercedes, Toyota, Honda, Proton, or that hunk-a-junk that somehow seemed road worthy in the eyes of the authorities, any driver can be inconsiderate on the road. For some inexplicable reason, we can become monsters when we're driving. So before you click "Post to Facebook", take a step back and realize that you might have been the reason for an altercation.

2. Cutting lanes without signalling is terrible.

Newsflash: If you enter another lane without signalling, you an inconsiderate jerk. It doesn't matter if there aren't any cars behind you in the next lane, it's a safety precaution. After all, it doesn't take you several CrossFit sessions to do the deed. All it takes is a flick of a finger and bam. It's done.

So if you cut into someone's lane without signalling and see them flashing their lights at you in anger, don't respond with your middle finger. You're just adding fuel to fire. It's your fault, dammit!

Here's an example everyone is most familiar with:

But if posting your displeasure on Facebook isn't as bad as the comments that follow on your social media network. Here are some real comments we found:

1. Let's make this Honda driver famous! WXXX 71846
2. The BMW compensates for his small appendage. lol!
3. That old man should just die already.
4. Rich man's son. Father only bought car, not manners along with it.

Not only are you jumping to conclusions when you publicly shame the guy who high-beamed you, you could be ruining a completely nice guy's reputation who wasn't wrong in the first place.

3. Aftermath lecture turns into social media shame:

A friendly rant about why driving like a maniac was not the blamed party's best choice of the day doesn't warrant a social media post. Here's why:

1. Your argument is entirely one sided. No one knows for sure, and definitely not your friends who go on to comment, that you are definitely right.
2. You weren't paying attention to what you were doing on the road, so it could have been you who almost caused an accident.
3. You have no proof of what caused the altercation or lecture. You just sat in your inexpensive car feeling inferior for a silly reason.

Chances are, most people won't apply this sort of logic, which is why we turn into maniacal psychopaths when someone so much as eats into our lane.

4. Because this could totally happen to you too:

It doesn't deserve a shame post on Facebook, that's for sure. If you were the person who didn't see the other car in your blind spot, would you want to be shamed on social media?

But here's how you know the other driver is being a dick:

Tailgating assholes! Okay, you deserve the right to be furious over this one.

And it could be you too. I mean, YOU could be the one tailgating instead:

You're an asshole. Stop it.

5. Finally, CTFD

Easy to say, but hard to do, even though we must at least try to calm the fuck down from Hulk-ism. Don't be too quick to post whatever your brain shits out on Facebook without thinking. Again, you could be in the wrong too. In any case, install a dashboard camera, lest you have hard time proving who was in the wrong in case of an accident: