most dangerous thing
normal person will do on
a daily basis …
According Trooper Nick Pye of the S.C. Highway Patrol, in the Charleston Post and Courier article, Grace period is over for ‘Carolina Squat’ truck in SC. How many tickets have been issued? By Caitlin Byrd on July 29, 2024, who was quoted as saying, “Driving is the most dangerous thing a normal person will do on a daily basis.”
Let us say that all together …
Driving is the most dangerous thing a normal person will do on a daily basis.
Now let’s take the statement apart.
Driving …
We all know what that is and how difficult it is for some folks to do.
Daily Basis …
Something that happens daily and multiple times in any given day.
Most dangerous thing.
Like sharks, rattle snakes, high power lines, black ice and that person behind you in the McDonald’s drive through lane as time ticks down to the end of Breakfast Available.
We can come to a consensus on those terms.
Then that last one …
Normal people …
Normal people?
BOY HOWDY!
Pretty much a subjective term doncha think?
As Bernard Woolley said in the TV show, Yes Minister, about the word, “individualism … That’s one of those irregular verbs, isn’t it. I have an independent mind, you are an eccentric, he is round the twist.”
My feeling, and I count myself as being part of the Normal People group, is that driving is the most dangerous thing I do on a daily basis because so FEW of the other drivers aren’t normal.
Driving in Atlanta on a daily basis, I formed opinions about other drivers based on their license plates.
Georgia drivers were okay as they understood the first official rule of driving as issued by The Georgia Department of Transportation which was KEEP MOVING.
Drivers from up north I assumed were pretty much normal and just wanted to get through the city on their way to visit the Rat down in Orlando.
Drivers from Tennessee, Florida and Alabama should be avoided if possible because they were just bad drivers and often visitors to Atlanta and liable to drive across 5 lanes of traffic when their GPS told them to ‘Take the Exit.”
Then there were those drivers from South Carolina.
I learned to stay away, get away, back off or pass them as soon as possible because there was no way to figure out what they were doing and that there was the possibility that they would do anything including come to a stop at anywhere on the freeway.
Anything could happen with a South Carolina driver near you.
NOW I LIVE IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
Now I have a South Carolina plate.
Dangerous drivers are the norm!
Sometimes, the real heroes of our society are those people are those, who on any given day, back the car out of the garage and drive off to work.
The most dangerous thing a normal person does on a daily basis.
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