Impromptu Social Experiment:

Last night something happened that has not happened to me before. (Or at least that I can remember) I ran out of gas in the middle of the road. I was on a 4 lane road, 2 lanes in each direction. Luckily I was in the outside lane and was able to pull over as close to the curb as possible. I actually put on my hazards when I saw all my dash lights come on. I would think there would have been a sputter from the engine but NOPE, it was as if my car just fell asleep at the wheel.

Once I got over to the curb, I noticed that there were many cars that would come up on me at a high rate of speed and cut over to the other lane at the last minute. So wanting to be in the safest position possible I figure I would get out of the car, open the hood so they could see there was a disabled car, (thinking they needed more notice then the flashers) and then I stood near the car on the sidewalk.

During my wait for the friend I called for rescue I noticed several things. The main and obvious thing was that there are many inattentive drivers out there. I would say there were four instances of people almost ramming my car at full speed, and countless others tried at a slower speed.

The second observation and sadly somewhat a shocker, I actually had three people stop and ask if I needed help. Granted they stopped in a dangerous manner but stopped none the less. It was a sad shocker to me because I admit I don’t have faith in humanity and didn’t expect anyone to stop at all. Now the Ironic thing is that the one person who I expected to stop didn’t. That person was our lovely law enforcement officer. I would think that as a public servant you would check out any car on the public roads that appeared to be in distress, but alas, that wasn’t the case.

Either way, the situation was handled easily, it was a nice evening and I now know that my gas warning light doesn’t work and that when the needle reaches the big E to fill err up!

Blogs

So I have to admit this post is extremely hypocritical but I am going to post it anyway.

You see I “blog surf” daily and over the past year since I have started I have noticed that some people are good to update frequently and some very seldom update their blogs. The post becomes hypocritical because I am part of the latter. My reasons are solely based on the fact that I know very few read my blog and probably don’t miss it.

What I don’t like is the family blogs, the non rant blogs that very seldom get updated. If you have a blog that is about you, your family or what you do then by all means UPDATE at least weekly. Those of us who frequent your blog get tired of reading or seeing the same picture and or story on your blog for 3 months straight. We visit your blog on a regular basis because we want to know what you are doing. Obviously you want us to know because you opted to use this form of communication to let us know about your life. USE IT!

We are fine that you would rather us read about you vs. call you or visit but at least keep it updated. Even if you have nothing to report that you think is worthwhile, at a minimum you can post a picture.

So with that said . . . enjoy the wait for my next post :)