"It is not the ctitic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Road Rage?

~Anyone driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.
~Author Unknown

~Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.
~Mac McCleary

Sometimes I wonder how many people swear at me a day.

See, I try to go the speed limit. Ya, sometimes I go over :) But I am terrified of being pulled over so whenever I think about how a cop might see me, I slow down. Besides that there is the fact that construction on Bangerter Highway is ridiculous. As in, there is none. That being said, they have a million cones down the sides of the road and speed limit signs at 45 mph instead of 55 or 60.

There was one trip on the freeway when I was coming home from college for the weekend when I counted how many people sped around me. It was some crazy number I don't remember. And you can always tell when the person behind you is upset. They get really close and move back and forth a little in the lane. Sometimes I just laugh at them and estimate how long it will be until they swerve around me :) Very entertaining.

I watched a car for about half my drive to work the other morning. The kind of driver I could not be because my stress levels would skyrocket. They would swerve around someone, speed up to cover the space to the next car, break really hard again and again, drive really close the them until there was another opening, and do the same thing all over again. So annoying. And honestly, they got, like, three cars ahead of me after ten minutes. Haha, not worth it.

Anyway, I was driving the other day and remembered all the things I say to people who are being stupid on the road. Ya, I have a little bit of road rage. But until this week I'd never thought much of what others say about/to me. Haha, I kind of think it would be interesting it hear. Also, probably good that I don't :)

~The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers.
~Dave Barry
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  1. Corey WilkeyNovember 19, 2010 at 8:01 AM

    i am an incredible driver...there was never any better ;)

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