A major insurance company sponsored testing & polling to find out where the best & worst drivers in America are. Oregon & Washington! Numbers 1 and 2, respectively. California was 14th, Texas was 24th, and all the New England states were dead last except for Vermont (3rd place).
I think the main reason I'm posting this is because it was hell yesterday; driving my mom and grandma around. Convincing them that I knew what I was doing and where I was going was frustrating. Neither have driven much in the city for the last 10 years... and shit, I've owned an RV, a motorcycle, a few cars... and driven a variety of cars owned by others as well. And I've driven ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. Including other countries! Sheesh. I think it's just their nature to be cynical. Anyway, yeah... I'm one of those good drivers, so THERE!
TLC
I've been around some TV sets the last few weeks, and seen few valuable nuggets of interesting stuff. Today a 3 minute glimpse of the show "Honey we're killing the kids" on The Learning Channel had me almost in tears. I assume it's a show about the bad lifestyle habits that today's parents inflict upon their children. The part I tuned into was when this lady showed 2 overweight parents (not morbidly obese, though), a fast foward projection of how their young boys will probably look over the years, until age 40. The parents watched the computer program display of their sons changing over the years, and the sons were obese and definitely not healthy. The parents were so ashamed they were practically speechless. The lady asked them how they felt about seeing this, and they quietly spoke of how they'd wished so much more for their boys, and how the boys unfortunately looked just like them. The lady went on to say that the parents were reducing the boys' life expectancy by 10 years, if the eating habits don't change.
It was moving, because lately I've been feeling that we're all so self-absorbed and here was a way to really inspire these parents to change for the sake of their children. People can go on hearing how bad their lifestyle is and never really do anything about it, but thank god most people want the best for at least their own kids... because by the look of utter shame on their faces I think that these two are likely to make some changes.
It was moving, because lately I've been feeling that we're all so self-absorbed and here was a way to really inspire these parents to change for the sake of their children. People can go on hearing how bad their lifestyle is and never really do anything about it, but thank god most people want the best for at least their own kids... because by the look of utter shame on their faces I think that these two are likely to make some changes.
