Monday, June 13, 2005

Speeding

I used to speed (accelerate, actually), and I thought I'd change my ways after I got married. I've been married over a year now, and I got a ticket. So, I've changed my ways: now I won't go over 10-over the speed limit. And you wouldn't believe how many people this pisses off!

How fast do some of these drivers want me to go? I'm getting passed all the time. And it's not just one or two a day, either. I'm being passed daily on my way to work and on my way back, no matter which shift I work or if it's a workday or a weekend. Anywhere I go on a highway, you can bet I'm getting passed on that trip.

I know I used to drive like these folks. I didn't know that so many people drove like that, though. It's dangerous. It's no wonder the radio's "stress-saver traffic" is always reporting accidents. We'll be moving to Buffalo in three months, so I hope New Yorkers are better drivers.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. --Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"