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2 Responses to “It’s not that people do dumb things…”
I wrote this waiting for my lunchtime babes to arrive yesterday, shortly after a traffic near-incident. Too long to set up the narrative for too little payoff, but the upshot is another driver did something 100% legal but incredibly short-sighted, and I could have easily had a wreck with her that would have been 100% my fault—by the letter of the law.
And I don’t think nearly enough people even consider that you can drive legally but badly, and even fewer trigger any self-reflection at times like this.
Precisely.
I wrote this waiting for my lunchtime babes to arrive yesterday, shortly after a traffic near-incident. Too long to set up the narrative for too little payoff, but the upshot is another driver did something 100% legal but incredibly short-sighted, and I could have easily had a wreck with her that would have been 100% my fault—by the letter of the law.
And I don’t think nearly enough people even consider that you can drive legally but badly, and even fewer trigger any self-reflection at times like this.
Things will be different in Bozekistan.