“Replaced it all and mileage better than ever :-)”
Heck, I definately wouldn’t mind waiting in line while a guy tunes up his truck at the pump. You’re doing something useful.
After reading all these replies I am now convinced that senselessly holding up others is actually a good thing. Here are some other good ideas in the same vein:
Next time at a bank drive-up window, send in your deposit checks one at a time… just to hear the WOOOSH sound a dozen times instead of only once.
Spend five or more minutes organizing your luggage contents in the overhead bin during boarding… even though you could have done this during the two hours waiting at the gate.
Wait until you’re at the head of the line before looking up at the menu. Send one of the kids out to the car to see if granny wants diet Coke or not.
Recite Genesis word-for-word while receiving communion. The priest wil be impressed.
This “Doomsday” sensationalist site is owned by a 27 year old journalist who is making money off the ad space he sells. He self-proclaims himself to be a political science major (at an unnamed school) and a law graduate (at an unnamed school). Very convenient… who will check his credentials. Very convenient… his claimed education has nothing to do with the science of global warming.
I very briefly studied political science and came away with the following tidbit, which it seems this fellow also came away with the same tibbit: The far right side of the political continuum is called fascism, and fascism is marked by a thing called “The Big Lie”. Fascists, be they political leaders or simple citizens, employ The Big Lie to fish people in. In Fascist thought, the bigger the lie the better since huge lies are difficult to disprove since the scope of work to refute the lie is too large for commoners to tackle.
You can rest easy, there is no “Peak Oil” and if there were, a 27 year old journalist isn’t the one I’d run to to find out when we will run out of oil.
Are you OCD?
Do you tailgate?
I’ll bet the honest answer to both is “yes”.
And here I thought the world’s most serious problems were things like violent crime and poverty.
“The far right side of the political continuum is called fascism, and fascism is marked by a thing called “The Big Lie”.”
Gosh, that sounds like the Far Left, too! Go far enough in one direction, and you end up at the other. Is politics a mobius strip, just like the univers?
Don’t know what OCD is, so I may or may not be.
I never tailgate. I think it is rude beyond belief even if there is a true schmuck in the highway passing lane doing 5 MPH below the limit.
I frequently signal people to pull ahead of me. When I’m done passing I pull to the right if
it makes sense. When I pass a bicyclist on a narrow road I give him a wide berth. Why? because it makes sense.
I’m just relating what is being taught in higher forms of education. The far left, of course
is communism. Both ends of the continuum represent extreem thought. If you move a little right from communism, you find socialism. If you move a little left of fascism you find Chenney & Bush
(just kidding, they’re both fascists).
In the US we employ thought from all reaches of the continuum, always seeking a set of ideas that best benefit the country. We are always out of balance though because political and industrial interests try to force ideas that provide only myopically focused benefits to the exclusion of the rest of the country.
“If you move a little left of fascism you find Chenney & Bush (just kidding, they’re both fascists).”
So, they are Hitler and Mussolini incarnate? I don’t think so. You’re perspective is skewed in a bad way. Just because you disagree with someone strongly is no reason to put them in that box. Are you a good chum or a bad one? The latter, I think.
Understanding things (such as the political continuum as one example) allows one to more quickly recognize things. It’s a good thing, not a bad thing. I put things in the box where they belong.
I think that’s good. I would think I’d gain criticism if I tried to fake it and laud people who
have not been worthy of praise. The pair you elect to defend are not worthy of defense.
OCD is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. People with OCD can become extremely frustrated and irritated if everything around them does not happen exactly as they think it should. You are upset about this gas pump thing far beyond a normal and justifiable amount. You’ve blown it way out of proportion. That’s a characteristic of OCD.