For years, the white line on the road that you’re supposed to stop at as you leave the main road out of my neighborhood was about a full car length too short. You had to pull up past it so your bumper was over the line just to see past the brush and the hill.
A few months ago I saw a survey crew checking out the situation. They watched car after car pull up past the line. So they fixed it. They moved that white line up by a full car’s length…
That didn’t change anything with the traffic. Those bumpers are still sitting above that line, and now their fender is in practically in the middle of the road.
I have literally had to swerve around someone to turn left onto my street because they were so far out (If I was driving my living room things would have been different).
It’s in the American Blood.
It’s why we have the Starbuck’s “Venti“; the McDonald’s “Super Size“; the Robitussin “Extra Maximum Strength”
“I need the maximum strength; that’s the kind of pain I’m in. Give me the maximum allowable human dosage… Find out what will kill me and then back it off a little.”
Jo said:
So true.
That reminds me of something Becky Tirabassi said when she spoke at onething in Rochester with us.
She was talking about how when she was an alcoholic she knew how to (and thrived on) get drunk and basically fill herself to overflowing… she always crossed “that line”.
When she became a Christian, she kept that mind-set. When she asked for the spirit she wanted ALL of it! She knew how to fill herself to the extreme. To open wide as ask for it all…and them some!
Posted on November 8, 2006 at 8:36 am
Esther said:
Good point, Jo. I remember (MANY years ago) doing some pretty wild stuff but, when becoming a Christian, was told not to be that way. You have to settle down and be nice now and not offend anyone. We need more role models like Becky that tell the real truth of how to go after God. Wahoo!
Posted on November 8, 2006 at 12:05 pm
Shawn said:
You guys took what was supposed to be a goofy post on bad driving and turned it into a hungering for God / Pro-Tirabassi conversation … cool.
Posted on November 8, 2006 at 2:57 pm
chris said:
Like your ride!
Posted on November 8, 2006 at 4:01 pm
Shawn said:
Chris - Slap some 24″ blades on that p-ride and I be rollin’
Posted on November 9, 2006 at 9:36 pm