You've watched a driver wave in pedestrian after pedestrian, pause for someone backing out of a driveway, smile and gesture generously to everyone around them — and then the moment you try to pass, they speed up so you can't. Dr. Kat Derrig-Palumbo, a licensed psychologist, builds a whole episode around that contradiction, sparked by a line from her youngest daughter: that person is generous to everyone but the one behind them.

Working through five everyday driving scenarios — crossing three lanes at a light, stopping in a live lane to check a phone, blocking intersections, the In-N-Out line, and a tense moment over a shopping cart — Dr. Kat treats each not as a traffic complaint but as a small question of character. You'll hear why she reframes the driver who cut you off so they don't take up "rent in your brain," and why one impatient choice can quietly affect thirty-five strangers. It's a grounded look at how small courtesies, or their absence, shape the way a day actually feels.

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