Off The Road

Today is one of those days when it's best for me to stay off the road. In just my short commute to work, I found myself getting annoyed at several other drivers. The first one was the guy in the little silver sports car that got annoyed at me for not letting him out of a side parking lot in front of me. The guy behind me let him in and then he proceeded to quickly dart in and out of the cars in front of us to get his spot in the left turn lane to get on I10. The next one was the kid that was wrestling around with his cigarette lighter. When he realized that his pocket lighter was not going to work, then he proceeded to use the car lighter. A few blocks later he has a lit cigarette in one hand and cell phone in the other- which hand was hanging on to the wheel? The next guy did a u turn and crossed over three lanes of traffic to end up in the right turn lane of Mason road. Then when I was driving down the access road- doing 60 mph, almost everyone else was zipping by me like I was standing still. About that time I'm getting annoyed with my self for being annoyed at everyone else. Then I have another thought- what kind of society places their physical body inside something made of glass, metal, rubber, and gasoline and propels themselves through space at 70 mph? What compounds this issue even more, is the fact that then we surround ourselves with all sorts of other "lunes" who have also placed themselves inside of glass, metal, rubber, and gasoline and then they are smoking, talking on the phone, putting on makeup or eating lunch and trying to drive and are running late for something :) Maybe it is time for me to move to Bandera and get out of the traffic :)