Intial Offering

The plan is to have a venue to vent on the frustrations going on around us. These rants are just that, opinions based on daily experiences.

That having been said, lets start with SPEED. What has happened that most everyone seems to be obsesed with speed these days. Fast food, fast computers, fast cars, fast approval, and on and on. Why is it that everytime we get on the road in some kinda of motor vehicle it suddenly becomes a moral imperative that we get to our destination as fast as humanily possible with little regard to others on the road. Cutting others off to race to the next red light seems to have become a national sport. Passing as many vehicles as possible while on a two lane road is a nessacity as to be a car length behind someone at the next redlight would surely be a mortal sin. Drafting the car in front of you seems to be quite entertaining as well. This must be some latent Nascar fantasy.

I guess I just don't understand. I figure that unless your in a vehicle that has lights and a siren, or a doctor on the way to perform emergency life saving surgury, where is everyone is such a hurry to get too? Work maybe.... I would suspect not as most are not happy with their jobs. The grocery store? You never know when there might be a rush on toilet paper. Maybe I'm just not willing to risk my life and limb or the life and limb of others to get anywhere. And really... is the risk of an accident or traffic ticket (including an increase in insurance) worth arriving somewhere a few minutes earlier? Not to me, if I need to be somewhere a few minutes early, guess what I do...... leave a few minutes early. It's not worth the risk or the stress trying to break a land speed record to get anywhere. The work will still be there and I doubt there will be a national shortage of Charmin.