Ohdang!
I hate to say this, but I got tired and stressed just reading about your week! GAH!!!!
Poor you! You need a break, guy.
However, I have a fun new project: NAME THE DRIVERS (or somthing like that):
Come up with a simple term that describes the driving habits of a particular locale. My first two entries:
Seattle, "Go With the Flow": In my intro to my quarter-century in the Seattle area, the drivers were polite to a degree even beyond what I experienced (previously) in the Santa Cruz (CA) mountains. If you needed to enter a busy stream of traffic, somebody would back off and wave you in, for example. (In the Santa Cruz mountains, if somebody was on you tail obviously wanting to go faster, you'd pull off first opportunity and let him go. A mutual honk and a wave sealed the deal -- no -Silicon- Valley folks need apply.)
Boston, "Carpe Viam" (Seize the Way!): You are on the road and You Own It! Even if it leads you directly into a collision situation. I was amazed to see Bostonites drive directly and deliberately into situations that in Seattle would guarantee a collision, only to back off at the last instant.