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Sitting in traffic 'cause of some buttmunch, I had a great idea...
... unfortunately, you'd have to be God to carry it out.
I'm driving on I-285 in Atlanta this afternoon (noon) and guess what? Some idiot got into a fender bender which literally blocked traffic in three lanes, making the six lane highway slow down to a crawl. It took me 50 minutes to drive a distance that usually takes 5.
Naturally I was fuming. If there is one thing that I can't stand it's having people waste my time. I'm thinking "this ****wit is stealing from me and from everybody on this road! If he was stealing money or possessions we would have recourse, but no - he's stealing my time and there's not a damn thing that we can do to get recompensated for our lost time."
Since it was literally stop and go traffic, I pulled out my calculator and crunched some numbers. This guy wasted 45 minutes of my life and of everybody's lives who were on the road. Assuming that he affected 10,000 people (I-285, hell, Atlanta highways in general are notoriously busy), he literally wasted 450,000 minutes or nearly 11 months of our lives.
And he doesn't have to pay for that.
However, I came up with a perfect plan, one that is brilliant in design but sadly lacking in execution - you'd literally have to be God to do this:
If you waste somebody elses time, that time that you waste should be deducted from your lifespan.
Yeah, I'm a bastard, but goddam - I had things to do, people to see, appointments to keep, and that ******* wasted 45 minutes of my life and of everybody elses on the road. The buttmunch who wasn't paying attention and rear-ended that SUV ought to have his life shortened by 11 months cause that's how much of our lives he stole, the asswipe.
Now I feel better. Thanks for letting me vent.
I'm driving on I-285 in Atlanta this afternoon (noon) and guess what? Some idiot got into a fender bender which literally blocked traffic in three lanes, making the six lane highway slow down to a crawl. It took me 50 minutes to drive a distance that usually takes 5.
Naturally I was fuming. If there is one thing that I can't stand it's having people waste my time. I'm thinking "this ****wit is stealing from me and from everybody on this road! If he was stealing money or possessions we would have recourse, but no - he's stealing my time and there's not a damn thing that we can do to get recompensated for our lost time."
Since it was literally stop and go traffic, I pulled out my calculator and crunched some numbers. This guy wasted 45 minutes of my life and of everybody's lives who were on the road. Assuming that he affected 10,000 people (I-285, hell, Atlanta highways in general are notoriously busy), he literally wasted 450,000 minutes or nearly 11 months of our lives.
And he doesn't have to pay for that.
However, I came up with a perfect plan, one that is brilliant in design but sadly lacking in execution - you'd literally have to be God to do this:
If you waste somebody elses time, that time that you waste should be deducted from your lifespan.
Yeah, I'm a bastard, but goddam - I had things to do, people to see, appointments to keep, and that ******* wasted 45 minutes of my life and of everybody elses on the road. The buttmunch who wasn't paying attention and rear-ended that SUV ought to have his life shortened by 11 months cause that's how much of our lives he stole, the asswipe.
Now I feel better. Thanks for letting me vent.
@ Space
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