JohnH
These kids will never understand that. In their "minds" since their parents taught them that safe driving was a "waste of time" and speeding is fine because "everybody else does it" they see people driving the speed limit and obeying the law as Sloths.
Almost every argument of Slothdom blames the Sloth for the poor driving habits of others. "Sloths driving is dangerous because they're driving too slow and speeding inattentive drivers might (could-will) rear-end them" et al, ad nauseum. Duh...
It's all rampant immaturity and insane expectations when they get behind the wheel. They're obviously unable to maintain a grip on their emotions and they, like a lot of drivers today expect to enter the roadway and find all traffic reading *their* minds, being concerned for *their* travel and conforming perfectly to *their* driving style. It's never happened yet they always seem surprised when it doesn't.
Then their anger overflows. "Everybody has a lot of goddamn nerve being on the road and how dare they drive slower than me?! Goddamn MFFY's... I'll show THEM!" And it NEVER f***ing occurs to them that they're the MFFY and that perhaps a little self-examination might be in order. Nope, everybody else is the problem, not me.
Everyone of these knuckleheads will tell you that *they're* the safe driver and people obeying the speed limit are the problem. Of course they follow EVERY other traffic law except the speed limit but that's ok because speed limits are set too low. It NEVER occurs to them how stupid that argument is. It's so stupid it doesn't even qualify as an argument! My cousin got pulled over for speeding a million years ago and told the cop, "But everybody else was speeding"! The cop said, "Yeah, but I caught you".
A sign of maturity is not following along with the crowd when it's wrong, no matter it's size. Especially when there are signs telling you what *is* right every few miles.
A sign of maturity is making allowances for other people who might not be in a tear-butt hurry to get where they're going.
A sign of maturity is not making excuses for or rationalizing your behavior based on the behavior of others.
These kids are all about 14 years old, emotionally.
Make it impatience. To drive well requires patience and a lot of it. The more patience you exhibit the better driver you probably are. -----
- gpsman
