If you're waiting in line for something, be it a red stoplight to change to green, or for your turn at the self checkout machine at the grocery store, how can you not be ready when your turn comes? I don't get it.
When I'm waiting for something, I'm focused on it. As soon as it comes up, I'm on it. How can you miss an entire left turn signal? How can you let 15 precious seconds go to waste before realizing you could (should) be scanning and bagging?
What's worse is that these people are wasting my time. If they want to waste half a minute here, a minute there, that's their choice -- but they have no right to force it on me.
Even if I live to age 75 (optimistic, given family history), I only have 22,352,822 minutes left. I have absolutely no desire to spend even 1/22,000,000 of that waiting behind the moron who fails to notice the traffic light changing colors. What else could he/she possibly be doing? I know I have places to go and things to do.
I do, however, have a desire to live as long and as I can (in a relatively healthy state -- within reason, of course (no taking up running or crap like that)). Thus, I have started reading Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime. I recommend that everyone read this book, and consider contributing money and/or some of those precious minutes to the work of the Methuselah Foundation -- even if you enjoy spending your time waiting at traffic lights or in various lines.
Ahem. Your turn.
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Thanks for the support for Methuselah. Things have been going well for the Foundation over the past 6 months and both public opinion and support for the mission to end aging have been going great.
In addition to supporting the Foundation, I'm also running a YouTube End Aging Challenge if you or any of your audience is interested.
Thanks again.
Good lord that's terrifying and creepy. People who don't realize the light has turned green do bug me though. Not necessarily because I'm in that much of a hurry, but because I really think that when you're behind the wheel of a deadly machine, you ought to be paying attention.
when behind the wheel of a 'deadly machine' waiting for a traffic light to turn the appropriate color i like to do all sorts of things...sing, take a quick nap after a long day at work, sip my coffee or vitamin water, text/talk to my peeps...just about anything but dry out my eyeballs watching the damn light. I do, however, trust my peripheral vision to catch any change in color, and as soon as enough room appears I gun it for freedom =)
-bt
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