Sunday, November 4, 2007

Road Rage!

Road Rage is a funny thing. I suffer from it regularly. Yet when I see the flipping of hands and contorted lips of the guy in front of me, I feel quite self-righteous about the fact that I, unlike the guy in front of me, am keeping it cool. Good me. (Help me pat myself on the back here!) Jerry Seinfeld made a comment about when people purchase a car they think they buy the 50 feet in front of it too. Funny, it really resonated with me. When I still ran the daycare the little girl in my care would go home with her mom and at every green light would yell, "Go, go, go" and it wasn't because I was teaching her her colors! My son, when he was quite a bit younger was with Omi one day and yells, "It's not getting any greener!". Maybe I've had this problem for awhile! OK so maybe it isn't a "maybe". I was thinking yesterday while I'm driving on slippery roads feeling very superior about the fact that I have remembered to change my tires before the roads got bad (For the first time ever), that for lent (whenever that is) that I shall give up my aggressive driving. ( sorry for the run-on sentence) I shall abide by the speed limit and be patient with the idiots in front of me. I might even stop calling them idiots, but that isn't likely! Some have earned that title and it wouldn't be fair to take it away from them! Lent is 30 -40 days or something I think. Maybe I'll start with one day. I'll pick a day that I only have to go out once so I'll be able to restrain myself. Maybe I'll do it on a Sunday morning before anyone else is on the road....

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You made me laugh!! A few times, in fact. Miss you, M

Sherry Toninato said...

You think that my driving is questionable, Miss "why did that guy stop at the sign (stop sign that is). Love ya, anyway...