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The original was posted on /r/sakartvelo by /u/Really_I_dont_know on 2023-08-07 16:29:37+00:00.

If you are from a different country e.g. USA, Canada, Germany, Australia, etc… I imagine Georgia is a lot different than back home.

I am from the USA and after many years still struggle to comprehend the behavior here other to think “most people here are shit”

I am talking about

• cutting in lines

• aggressive, dangerous driving + honking for nothing (permanent road rage)

• and the overall negative vibe from the majority of people here

Not to say there aren’t many smart, interesting, good people here, but I’m speaking about what I believe is the overwhelming majority perhaps 80% of people here.

Anyway, I understand why they cut in line: mindset of scarcity, inherited from the Soviet Union culture when bread lines would run dry. There was no way to accept the line, you had to be first.

I don’t understand the road rage, I guess it’s the upward mobility some experienced in the last 20 years (the economy has grown, unemployment has shrunk), so maybe people are on a longterm “ego trip”.

Anyway, my question is: how do you accept, deal with it? I don’t have the energy to fight for my place in line every time, and I don’t have the stamina to deal with the Mad Max driving sometimes.

If you are Georgian, or Eastern European and offended by this, don’t worry you are probably one of the 20% “smart interesting people” I mentioned above [- _o].