@KingAdrock wrote:
Traffic Waves
If everyone read this, stop-and-go would practically be obliterated forever.
Yes! Where I grew up in the Midwest people drove very very differently from here between NYC and Boston! The impatient drivers continually frustrate me. Recently I was stopped on a steep uphill in snow, and could not get traction when the light changed so I put my transmission into reverse. One car was behind me. Now, in Wisconsin where I grew up the driver of that car would have realized (1) I was trying to back up to where I could get a running start, (2) I could not back up until he backed up, (3) neither of us was getting out of there until both of us had backed up to where we could get a running start, and (4) it was therefore IN HIS OWN SELF INTEREST to back up. Instead he honked the horn until I got out of my car and persuaded him to back up by EXPLAINING the situation that his testosterone poisoning was preventing him from comprehending.
I can understand -- not condone, but understand -- selfish behavior that benefits the selfish person at the expense of another person. I can approve but not always understand altruistic behavior that benefits another at the expense of the person doing it. I have always found it very hard to understand behavior that harms BOTH the person doing it and somebody else (and am really disgusted when I catch myself acting in ways that benefit neither me nor anybody else!).
Message Edited by MattH on 03-10-2009 10:11 PM
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