do you ever completely zone out when you drive. and snap out of it several miles down the road to be like "jeez. what just happened in the last 10 minutes!"
i feel like i do this all the time. i will be driving, and then get lost in some thought. and suddenly i am home! or suddenly i "come to" in traffic and the end of a Matchbox 20 song is playing and you know that ish would never be on the radio had i been "with it".
i always wonder what would have happened if someone cut me off while i was zoning out. would i snap out of it? is the reason i zone out because nothing interesting happening on the road? or do things happen and by instinct i brake, switch lanes, whatever?
this morning it happened on the way to work. i was thinking about what i would do if i won big at Foxwoods this weekend, and which bag and pair of shoes i would immediately purchase...and suddenly it was like 8 exits later and i had no recollection of the last 17 miles.
and then i thought to myself, "this is dangerous! what can I do to make sure that I don't zone out like this anymore?"
so i'm going to buy those shoes and that bag regardless of if i win big or not. i mean, my safety and the safety of countless others is at risk!
this things i do for others. sheesh.
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
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that happend to me too. sometimes i "realize" i haven't been paying attention to exit numbers and wonder if maybe i missed mine, but i never have. then i wonder if i hadn't realized i wasn't apying attention if i would have missed the exit or if i would have realized then. no way to know i guess.
i zone out pretty much everyday in traffic. i think the worst thing for me is trying to figure out if i might have inadvertantly run any red lights.
I drive two hours every day -- one hour to work, one hour back -- so you can bet that I zone out for miles at a time. Especially because I have cruise control!
I'm loving your site. Pink shoes? You're a girl after my own heart! Let's be friends!
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