Don’t expect anyone to gaze longingly at your car while stopped in traffic, fantasizing about how cool it must be to be you. Photo: Wikipedia
Pick a Lane and Stay in It!
I did some research about transportation, accidents, traffic fatalities etc…, and the data clearly shows that changing lanes doesn’t help; you just race up to the next bottleneck. Pick a lane, stay in it, and pay attention to the car directly in front of you. It could stop. Suddenly.
If you have more money than sense and have purchased an uber expensive pleasure barge to drive to work in:
Don’t expect anyone to gaze longingly at your car while stopped in traffic, fantasizing about how cool it must be to be you. We are all stuck in traffic; none of us will ever have a chance to zip Mach 1 on the freeways around here, and you are probably an idiot. If you want to impress, you should have bought reliable transportation that does well in a crash and then invested the rest of the money or donated it to some worthwhile charity. That’s impressive!
If you are driving south on the 405 in the morning and you have a surfboard strapped to the roof of your car:
First, stop smiling. It’s hard enough to drive in to work on a Monday. I spend the entire commute trying to avoid being involved in a firey crash whilst mulling the surf conditions around in the back of my mind, trying to calculate how many PTO hours I have and wondering if I have used the “I won’t be in today, because I have the one day leprosy,” excuse this month yet. So if you have the day off and are heading down to Trestles, San Onofre or other points south, please flash me an “I’m–going-to-the-dentist” frown as you pass by.
It will really help me continue on to work and I would appreciate it!
Best Regards,
PranaGlider
