Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Impatience in America
I see impatience as a problem in this world because it can make people very angry. It can come from so many things that a person could be perfectly fine one minute, and be exploding the next for example: a person is going slow through a school area, which of course is always 25 during school hours( this is during school hours) and a person behind them is in a hurry and tailgating them. So the person in the front realizes this and has 2 options, to continue to go slow poss brake check them, or to speed up and get out of their way. lets say the person is an older person though so they just continue to go slow. Thus leaving the person behind them very impatient because perhaps they will be late to work or are just in a hurry. when they get to a stop sign the impatient person may honk, flip the person off, or just get out of the car and start yelling. Personally i feel that impatience is something that gets many people in a lot of trouble. There are so many ways that its nearly impossible for all of us to not feel impatient at least once in our life. some other types of people being impatient could be: standing in line at a store, waiting to get gas, waiting for someone to arrive, waiting for a call back from someone, stop lights, late for work, Christmas shopping, black Friday, among many other situations that can cause some people to be impatient. A large problem I notice is road rage, possibly the highest on the top of my list for impatience. I am not sure how so many problems could possibly all be fixed, I believe that a person can only fix the problem within them selves, because they are the ones that make them selves that way. Perhaps therapy or some sort of relaxing thing could be done.
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In the scenario you describe, do you think the impatient driver ever stops to think that school zones have a slower speed for a reason? I will admit that I've gone faster than I should through school zones, but lately I've really made an attempt to slow down. If going slow is safer for the children, I figure my need to get somewhere quickly isn't as important as that.
ReplyDeletewhich is very true. I also do find it very important for the safety of the children, however if they are all inside the school, and there are none outside, i also tend to go a little faster. However the man who got out of his car to yell at me was very scary. :)
ReplyDeleteI am also almost betting that the impatient driver probably does stop to think about it, but seems to think that since there are none that are within view that they are okay to go on with the way they were driving. Though i know that just because there are none in view, that does not make it okay to still drive like a mad man/woman.