It’s pouring rain.
I’m half in your lane because the only way I can keep out of the standing water is by straddling the yellow line.
I’m all lit up, and have been watching your headlights oncoming for the last three miles–
and you’re going to play chicken. with. an. Ambulance.
?!!
–As my dad would say:
I have to laugh.
We rumble along. I just raise my eyebrows as they go by, me fully in my lane, driving in deep water.
(because we prefer smart driving to brave.)
The rain slows and we pick up pace again. And three drivers in a row have their cars in park a half mile before I get there, and the next driver just crosses the white line enough to spit gravel everywhere and endanger my windscreen.
I can’t resist a little lecture in the moments before we meet and part.
Eh hem…, driving with one wheel barely over the white line still verily qualifies as being on the road. Especially at that speed, bro. And driving with all but one wheel on the other side would too. Know what I’m saying?
[car streaks by]
This ‘almost off the road’ thing is really a misnomer.
You’re either on the road,
His, I think.
I suddenly see how they are one and the same. The guy who blazes past, and the guy who almost stops. Both still on the road.
And I think of the times I mostly obey…
August 3, 2012 at 11:06 pm
Ouch. That 'mostly'… something I have been thinking a lot lately. The need to be completely obedient – no excuses
August 4, 2012 at 2:46 am
Mhm. This one hits close to home. When we mostly obey, we've totally missed it. It's sobering to think that sometimes our halfway obedience may cause more harm than outright rebellion… Kind of like that car that moved over just enough to endanger your windshield with flying gravel. I'm thinking of the impact of our testimony in particular…
August 6, 2012 at 5:57 pm
huh. thought-provoking and frankly uncomfortable 😛 thanks for posting.