You know when you’re waiting at a red traffic light? Is it so much to ask for that if you’re in the first slot, that you pause the hair and makeup session and just focus on the task at hand?
Yesterday I was 3rd in line at the light. Light turns green…1 one-thousand, 2 one-thousand, 3 one-thousand…what is going on??? Why aren’t we moving? 4 one-thousand, 5 one-thousand, 6 one-thousand. I look at the first car and sure enough, the driver is doing her hair in the mirror. No movement. Now I’m getting frustrated with driver of car #2 also. There was a clear breakdown of responsibility here:
Car #3 (me in this case) should never have to do anything. Turns out that we would have missed the entire green if I hadn’t “reminded” car #1 and car #2 of their responsibilities. The good news is that I made it through that green light but I would have been very upset had I not.
One more thing for the road…10 out of 10 times, when the driver of car #1 realizes their blunder, they will floor the gas as if they were in a drag race and this display will somehow make up for the irresponsibility. News flash: it doesn’t.
Pave attention.
