Rules of the Road

You. Yea, you...that guy/girl who pulls up first to a light. You are personally responsible for how the remainder of my day will go. Yes, I know you are in front, and you will definitely make this light and you can afford to take your sweet time about it, but I'm about 10 cars back and I'd really like to NOT sit through 2 light cycles. So if you could hurry it up a little bit, and push a little harder on that right pedal I like to call the gas... we'll get along just fine.

There should be a freaking contract.
"I solemnly swear to do my very, very best to not prevent drivers behind me from making the light. Even if that means my car might make it up to 35 in this 1 block stretch, I trust my car will not spontaneously combust, and that my head will not explode from the force of all the speed I am accumulating so quickly."


Yes, I realize I could leave my house earlier and not have such a stressful morning drive every day. I really could, but I don't want to. I shouldn't have to. People should drive like they are actually going someplace and aren't about for a morning jaunt at 7 a.m. Just because you aren't running late today doesn't mean that all of us behind you didn't sleep through our alarms.

If you want to get to work that slowly, get a freaking bike.

What's up with that?!

 
What's up with colleges taking as many as 4 months to get back to me?
I mean seriously, UW stops accepting applications December 1st and they are still one of the last schools to send out their decision. They don't offer early action or any way to  prevent such a late notification. It drives me crazy that I am seriously going to have one month to decide what school I will be attending in the fall. Yes, I could be thinking about it now, I realize that. But I don't want to peg a school as my definite top choice and then not get in. Plus I don't have any clue what sort of aid I might be receiving, so yea, I'm kind of stuck.

What's up with hipsters?
(I believe this needs no explanation.)

What's up  with me having to remember like 15,000 different username/password combinations for all the accounts I have now for every scholarship/school/email/website? Some of them have super specific specifications for passwords so I basically have to create a custom one for that site and then I can absolutely never remember it. My mind is like, "what the heck?"

What's up with all the judgement?
People judge all the time (me included) and I'm just wondering why it is such an integral part of human nature? What part of us compels us to compare ourselves with everyone around? We're not them, they aren't us. It doesn't mean anybody is better than somebody else. Especially as Christians...we are called to love, not condemn. How effective would Jesus have been if he had accentuated his ministry with petty little remarks? I think that when Christians can really focus on something important and bigger than themselves, only then can they let go of the judgement. After all, Jesus didn't look down from the cross and think, "Well at least I have a better hairline than that guy."