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For over nine years now, I've been commuting to work approximately twenty miles one way on the highway. I've seen a lot of really ignorant drivers and I've never had a speeding ticket nor have I ever caused an accident in my twenty-six years of driving, but I have been hit at a stop light. I say "ignorant" because the definition of ignorance is "lacking knowledge, untrained, or uninformed". I can't imagine people would drive the way they do if they knew what could happen.

When I was in school they had a police officer show us a video of a car wrapped around a telephone poll. The car had hit the pole only at 40 miles per hour. Many people drive that speed on our city streets and main roads. People don't seem to realize you can be seriously injured or killed at that speed.

When I first started this job and my commute I used to drive with the crazy traffic. I would rush to get to work on time and hurry here and hurry there. I'll admit I did some crazy driving myself. It didn't take me too long to figure a few things out.

Number one, if you watch that crazy driver that speeds past you and take note of what their car looks like, I bet you nine chances out of ten you'll end up neck and neck at a stop light down the road. I've shown this to my kids so they can see driving radically or speeding doesn't do anything but endanger lives and waste your gas. Countless times my children and I have pulled up to a stop light and here's that car that passed us like a maniac and we just laugh.

Number two, if you are speeding and get a ticket you'll still be late for work. If you get into an accident on your way to work and die, someone else will get your job. Isn't it better to get there safe and a few minutes late than not at all?

Number three, how do you know that other driver is not seriously psychotic? What if that person just had the worst day of their life and they have a death wish? Do you want to end up being their bullet? Sometimes I will be driving with an attitude but I try to keep this in mind and I would prefer to get out of someone's way than end up in an accident. A few years back in a case of road rage a woman ended up dead when a man ran her off the road.

I've become increasingly irritated by other drivers and their lack of respect for other human life. Just last night I was on my way home from work passing a vehicle. I was driving the speed limit 70 mph as I passed the other car when another vehicle rushed up on my tail with their bright lights blarring in my window.

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