When the bell rings at 3:35 p.m., drivers race to their cars from their classes in order to be the first to pull out of the parking lot. The time period from 3:35 to 3:50 is the ultimate showcase of road rage vs. road rizz. While everyone may know what road rage is, most people are confused with the idea of road rizz. When describing road rizz, it’s easier to define it in terms of examples. Junior Lennon Geider described how he shows his road rizz while driving. “When I’m driving with my one arm out the window, one on the steering wheel, laid back as f*ck, with shades on, and you lock eyes and the other person smiles as you drive by,” Geider said. 

Having road rizz comes with many perks. Senior Beyla Jones said, “When someone rizzes me up in the parking lot I have no other option than to let them go.” Many people wonder how they can achieve as much road rizz as possible in order to benefit from such perks. Senior Alex White described that “letting someone pass when you have the right of way and being charming about it” is one potential step to achieving road rizz. 

In a recent poll on the Arcata High Pepperbox Instagram (@ahspepperbox), 42% of people believed they had road rage, and 58% of people believed they had road rizz. Although one student believes that no matter what she will own her road rage.   “Everyone who drives with me knows that I blurt out ‘MY TURN’ at a stop sign,”  Senior Aliviana Baca-Lastra said. “I have zero regular rizz. I don’t think I could turn it into road rizz if I tried.”