Driving. It’s something we do everyday. For the most part, we probably don’t even give it much conscious thought. The rules of the road have become common place - a second nature of sorts.
Recently, my Hubby-Lu and I changed our auto insurance policy. In the process informed us that we could apply an additional discount if we took an online Defensive Driving Course by the National Safety Council. So we did. During the course, however, I was introduced to an interesting tidbit of information.
There are no laws dictating a driver’s “right of way”.
There are no laws written to define your “right of way” in any given situation, whether a left-hand turn or a 4-way stop or whatever. I’m not kidding. You may balk at this piece of information as I did, but it’s true. As someone proceeds out of turn at the neighborhood stop sign, you have no legal standing to yell, “I had the right of way!” There are no laws designating who HAS the “right of way”; there are only laws dictating who should YIELD their “right of way.”
This is peculiar to me for a number of reasons. First, it goes against everything our modern strives towards everyday. We live in a world that is all about asserting our rights. Every minority and oppressed group in our nation clamors for their due rights. Even those of us that are not underprivileged are busily finding new rights to add to those already established. We want the right to sue fast food chains for serving us food that’s hot. We want the right to take God out of our schools and off our money. We want the right to do “whatever we want whenever we want” without releasing the right to keep your “whatever” from infringing upon mine. Need proof? What is the only line the average American can recall from our nation’s Declaration of Independence? If you can even half get it right, you’ll remember it plainly states that we are endowed with certain inalienable rights - to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, to be exact.
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6 comments:
I think you will be a success at whatever you endeavor to accomplish, W.E..
I will certainly keep you in prayer. I know that God will use you as a heavy underline of His gracious and merciful Word.
- Steve M.
Thank you for your kind words, Steve, and for your prayers. I can certainly always use prayers! I will remember you in mine.
ugh! I wrote a really long comment but blogger informed me that I don't own my simplyecclecia name so they erased all of what I said.
Short version:
To gainn more traffic and get your stuff out there have you thought of maintaining two blogs with the same content? This one and one on wordpress.com. The reason I mention this is because I have always received more traffic on WP than on blogger.
Down side is that they won't let you play with the html. Just a thought.
Also one is able to transfer all of their post to the WP from blogger.
What?! Lame. Sorry about that. I can think of nothing that frustrates me more than when I spend a lot of time writing something and lose it all because of computer glitches.
Why do you get more traffic on WP? That's something I might look into.
Right now my brain is tired from too much reading so you will get the sleepy brain answer. :)
Go to S.E. and click on one of the tags from any post. It brings you to an area where there are several posts by other people who used the same tag as the post you clicked on.
Also people can "tag surf" on wordpress. So if you wrote a post and used the tag "apologetics" and a person tag surfed for the word apologetics it is likely that they would come across your work.
I have done a little searching on the wordpress forums and I guess WP frowns upon people who use excessive tags. I try and keep mine around 6 tags per post. If you write good stuff then really there is no reason to use a zillion tags. A ton of tags looks desperate.
You should look into it. It might be worth the experiment to see if WP is right for you.
That's very helpful. Thanks. I'll be looking into it.
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