There's nothing though that makes me so upset as having someone in a flashy car making trouble for everyone on the road.
"Who do you think you are," I said to myself tonight after being cut off by an older man in a new sports car - a sports car I might add, that I dream of owning when I win the lottery.
Between the outrage that I felt at being cut off and the insult of seeing such a piece of work drive around in a car that I admire, I had to restrain the urge to respond with a gesture and a few choice words.
It took a while to shake off those negative feelings. They weren't at all assuaged when I saw the very same driver do the same thing to several other folks - they must have taught him that at Imperial Storm Trooper Academy.
"Five car lengths," I said to myself looking up at the very short distance that all those maneuvers had netted for the jerk, "All that nastiness for five car lengths."
I wonder sometimes about those folks. I wonder how awful it would be to know that however they feel about themselves (good or bad), they channel such negative force into the world; make a lot of folks around them feel bad. I know it's a small thing, really; I mean, nobody got hurt, but who knows how far a negative force can go in the world. It's a little like the dark side of the force.
I was wondering about that for a while tonight, and just a few minutes ago, a friend of mine posted something so kind and thoughtful on my Facebook wall that I just radiated like a warm cup of tea for about five minutes.
"Where did that come from," I thought, and realized how, without really knowing it, my friend had overcome the ill will of that jerk on the road with their good will.
"You never know how far a good act will go," my Dad used to say to me, and I guess it's true.
I hope I can take what I was given and send it on a little further.
Good night.
2 comments:
Well, you have made me glad that when something similar happened to me today, with my two children in the car, my response was something like "now there mister, what made you think THAT was a good idea!" and not something more profane that my children might then think was appropriate. Thanks for reminding me to give myself a pat on the back, I needed that!
Hi Ginger,
Nice to hear from you. I am not always as good as I ought to be at keeping my cool on the road, but I'm trying.
Hope all is well with you and your family. We've been wall to wall since the school year started for the kids. I'm just now starting to catch my breath a bit and get back to some blogging.
Take care,
Dave
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