23 IT’S A TWO WAY STREET
23 IT’S A TWO WAY STREET
The privilege of having a drivers licence and being able to drive was given to you after you proved to the driving instructor that you could control the car that you were driving and had the proper attitude to be a competent driver. He evaluated you because, to have a license to drive meant that you could take a dangerous weapon out on a fast busy highway and drive it safely and competently around other drivers. In giving you your license, he was telling the law officials that he thought that you could learn to do it properly.
Therefore, as long as you learn and do it lawfully, you get to keep your license; when you learn to drive in an unlawful manner, they will take their license back. [It’s only yours as long as you do it properly.]
The license that you have is only a card stating that you meet the qualifications to be allowed to drive; it guarantees nothing.
Everyone that is driving is supposed to have one of those ‘privilege’ cards and has just as many rights as you do to be on the road and doing what they are doing.
In other words, we are all doing the same thing or all in the same boat; whatever phrase you want to use makes no difference. Except for the different license graduations and classes, we are all equal.
Amide your busy schedule, you are driving down the road thinking about everything else but driving and you want everyone else to look out for you; to get out of your way, not run into you and not make you think about what you are doing while you are thinking about what you want to do. The trouble is, that is what everyone else is doing too.
This is a two way street here; a give and take situation. If you want others to look out for you then you must look out for them.
Sometimes driving is a very busy job and, even when everyone is paying close attention, things can happen; that’s why it takes all of us to keep all of us safe. We are a team but our goal is not to beat the other fellow and score but to help the other fellow so we all can score; if you win, he is safe and if he wins, you are safe.
On this ‘two way street’ the responsibility rests with all of us to be safe and keep the other drivers safe and this responsibility is shared equally among us all.
I try to drive as safely as possible wherever I am because my thinking is that, if I’m in your neighbourhood and can keep your children safe then I hope that, when you’re in my neighbourhood, you’ll keep my children safe; fair turnaround for a shared responsibility.
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Yes, it's the competition they encounter at their job, in their sports and at their recreation that extends over to their driving; unless they're going fast and getting ahead of everyboby else, they think that they are doing it wrong.