Another Reason!

Hi Everyone,

The majority of my blogs have been about people who lack any common sense due to greed. Greed seems to be able to make people do acts that defy common sense.  We have all seen on TV or in the written media about intelligent people who do or say something soooo stupid and the bottom line for what they said or did was greed.

Today's blog is about another reason for people who prove that they have absolutely no common sense, namely........... rage and in today's case it is road rage. Per my Gannett paper, the story goes: the other day at noon, in South Nyack, New York, on the corner of Clinton Avenue and South Broadway a bicyclist had a road rage incident. For unknown reasons, the bicyclist banged his fist on the hood of a car and then he reached inside the car and grabbed a passenger with both hands. Now here's what really takes the cake; the bicyclist did all that while both the car and the bicycle were moving. Unbelievably, the bicyclist was not hurt and there was no accident during his fit of rage.

To put one's life in extreme jeopardy like this bicyclist did obviously showed his utter lack of common sense. His road rage, for whatever reason he may have had, overpowered his ability to use any common sense, if he had any. I just can't fathom putting my own life in extreme jeopardy, with a high risk of injury or even death for road rage. It just isn't worth it. My common sense would rule over anger. This is another good reason to have some kind of high school or college level course of study on common sense. For some people, life lessons haven't helped them figure out what common sense is and when to use it. Unfortunately, common sense isn't a born instinct, but rather a learned quality that everyone needs to have in our tool box!

Til next week.

Peter