I was driving to Starbucks and in the opposite lanes, there was an on-ramp that has two lanes, merging into three lanes of traffic. The on-ramp is usually a bottleneck area anyways, but today there was a fender bender that had the two lanes down to one lane. Which meant that traffic behind the bottleneck was well and truely backed up... hundreds and hundreds of cars as far as the eye could see.
Which makes me think... one person's inattention or impatience... leads to a minor fender-bender... which inconveniences 100's if not 1000's of people. How does that work? One person trying to get somewhere 10 seconds faster, means that all of those other people are going to get somewhere minutes, maybe hours later... When you add up all that lost time, it's actually pretty impressive.
A good lesson for all of us... our haste to get somewhere, could affect a gazillion other people... The question to ask our selves... is it worth it?
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