Looks like somebody's got a case of the Every-Fucking-Day-Of-Their-Life

[hyperbole]

Just once I'd like to get cut off and suddenly feel an intense sense of empathy and compassion. Good luck buddy, get that beautiful wife of yours to the hospital. I remember that one time I was driving in a strange town and had no idea what the fuck I was doing and almost t-boned that Geo Metro. It's cool, it happens, everyone almost dies all the

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[god_jr]

I don't drive. never got a license, which is probably a good thing for the rest of mankind: i space out a lot. in the passenger seat i space out. but when i do bother to think about the road and all the other cars, i sometimes (rarely, but sometimes) wonder, how many of these people are trying hard to be a good earthling, and how many of them are total assholes? ha. i really like your take on it.

if i had a friend who never drove i word force the nickname 'shotgun' on him

[hyperbole]

I like thinking about which would have been more different: my life without driving or your life with it. I wonder how much time I've spent sitting in my portable box listening to music and watching lights change colors. How do you feel about bumper boats/cars, dune buggies, and go-karts?

Imagine all the people that drive the same route 5 days a week. How many times they've made the same trip, or gotten in the same traffic jams at the the same times on the same days. Picking two of those people at random, how many times in a lifetime would they be stopped dead in the middle of the freeway next to each other? How many times would they pull up to the same light to get on the freeway in the first place? Maybe never. Maybe they live in the same neighborhood and work at the same mall. Twice? Sometimes instead of staring at the light waiting for it change, I'll stare at a person next to me, and wait for them to stare back.

Re: if i had a friend who never drove i word force the nickname 'shotgun' on him

[god_jr]

please feel free to call me shotgun. :-)

i don't mind driving things (boats, carnival cars, etc.) ... i've even driven cars when the situation demanded it: getting home from a party when all my friends were too drunk to drive, or once when i had to pick up groceries in my hometown for my dad who was sick. in those cases i was naturally extremely focused and did just fine. what i worry about, if i got a license and became one of these daily drivers, it wouldn't be long before my mind would drift and i'd endanger my own and other lives. at least that's how i imagine it going. who knows, right? on the plus side that worry, rational or irrational, has saved me ever having to buy a car, auto insurance, or parking tickets. i've never had road rage. and i feel like biking keeps me fit, so ... at least until my knees give out, i'm fine on two wheels.

i like the way you think though.

On your left, buddy

[greyheaven]

tour de life

[hyperbole]

I wish I was a wizard or a genie or something so I could give every car's horn into a unique sound. Or just turn them all into pumpkins.

abracadabra, schmabracadbra

[hyperbole]

maybe just a grammar wizard