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6/28/2013 10:58:03 PM
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The greatest flaw of Humanity....

Is complacency. Humanity is complacent with far too many shortcomings. I noticed this today while making the 5 hour drive out to Tryon, North Carolina ([b]Middle of nowhere:[/b] [i]Mountain Edition[/i] for those of you who have never been here before) through two major incidents. The first came up after about 3 hours of driving, I was about ready for some lunch. I pulled into the drive-through of the first Bojangles I found, and got in line. But it was slow. Very slow. In fact, I spent 10 minutes waiting to even pay for my order. And when I finally paid? Another 5 minutes till the drink came out, with another 3 minutes for my food. Now, I'm not normally one to concern myself over time like this, but what really burnt me was the fact that they got almost everything wrong with my order, and it was a simple order. I got a sandwich, they gave me a biscuit, I asked for sweet tea, they gave me diet cherry Coke. I asked for two small fries, they gave me a medium and a small. It was just impossible. But people still lined up, and still got their food. The workers there didn't do anything to change what they had already started, it was just complacency of mediocrity all around. But that was just the first one, and it was a minor, common occurrence in America. The next was in regards to a fellow who probably killed someone today. As I was driving along a little after this first incident, a truck with two ladders on it hit a bump, and lost the smaller of the two ladders. It fell, right in the middle of my lane, and it wasn't a small plastic ladder. I immediately turned my hazard lights on, slowed down, and calmly moved to the next lane, since there was plenty of space to do so. But the car behind me was a dick, and just sped past me, only to swerve just in time to avoid catching the ladder straight on. Metal went flying everywhere, and the truck behind the dick who sped past me had to swerve too. And as for the guy who lost his ladder? I caught up with him later, and took a look at who it was that just ignored what happened. It was some 20-something-year-old guy who looked so very guilty. My question is, why was he complacent with just letting the guilt eat him up? Why didn't he pull over, and try to at least pull the ladder out of the road? Debris on the road is a top killer in the United States for automobile drivers. And he just let his entire ladder sit there, around a bend, in the left lane (passing lane) where it will probably end up killing someone. Do you agree, that complacency is our greatest flaw?

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