by Susan Duclos, All News Pipeline:

Lately I have been taking notice of the increase in stories of rage. Road rage, and air rage as countless examples of people seeming to lose their ever-loving minds while on an airplane, some forcing early landings to have people removed before continuing on to the original destination.

A couple of points before getting into the examples that appear to be getting worse.

First and foremost, traveling is nerve-wracking at times, whether it is the traffic, crazed drivers, or in the case of plane travel, getting to the airport on time, making it to your gate and then being cramped up next to people with barely any room to move.