I had a couple of interesting experiences today. Neither of which really surprised me, but both made me, (one again), realize what a low level of human consciousness that most people exist within.
 
The first occurred when I was going to breakfast with my lady this AM over in the LBC. I had pulled up next to a parking space, where I was going to parallel park. This junkyard of a white sedan, with a banged up front end comes jamming up from behind. He pulled in so close to me that I could not swing into the parking spot. He honks his horn. I honk mine and throw up my arms. I mean, I had my turn signal on. He pulls back just a bit. As I am parking, he jams past, honks again, as he is flipping me off. Okay…
 
We ate. We did a little bit of antiquing down in the OC. I was driving home. At this one intersection where there is a right turn arrow, the arrow came on but the guy in front of me came to a compete stop. He sat there. I gave him a little courtesy honk. You know how it goes; we all get distracted by our phone or our whatever every now and then, they honk. You give the person a wave of, “Sorry,” and move on. Instead of moving forward, however, he does one of those break check things and just sits there. My first thought was maybe he broke down as he was driving an old junkyard Honda out of the ‘90s. Finally, he goes. As I pass him, he is maybe a fifty something year old white dude. The kind that wears flip-flops, cargo shorts, and tee-shirts. There he was flipping me off, yelling, “Fuck you! Fuck you” I just laughed.
 
You know, I always try to cut people who drive junky cars a little slack. Like that great song by Adam Sandler, Piece of Shit Car. I mean, if they are living their life at that level, and they are that deep in life, you have to feel a little sorry for them, as their life, at that stage of the game, is not going to get any better.
 
And sure, if it came to blows, I would put the bet on me. But, why should I lower myself to their level?
 
People like that are just so angry at life, so angry with their own life, yet do they blame themselves for where they are in life? Probably not. Thus, they must expel their anger wherever they can find a place even when they are the one at fault. A lot of life problems are born out of that mindset.
 
You know, I truly wish life was not like this. I truly wish life would just be allowed to go along with peace, happiness, helpfulness, niceness, and all of that good kind of stuff. I just don’t know where they place is. If you do, let me know.