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without getting into the particulars of that whole episode, I do note that to this day that when my Toyota manufactured car goes in for service at the Toyota dealer, they make a major production of assessing the floor mat around the accelerator...it strikes me as a bit of theater.
This one is for ClemmonsDevil:
I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get pissed off at turkeys. There's turkey ham, turkey pastrami, turkey bologna. Someone needs to tell the turkey "Man, just be yourself. I already like you, little brother. You do not need to emulate the other animals. You got your own thing goin'. I used to draw you." (Stares at hand.) Man, if you were missing a couple of fingers, you would draw one messed-up turkey. You'd be like, "That turkey's been in an accident." --Mitch Hedberg
When I first heard Diane Rehm on the radio I thought there would be no way I could listen to her. And after about three episodes I realized that her speech disorder offered her such an unbelievable advantage because her guests had to pay attention to everything she said and her pacing made it so that it was impossible to interrupt her. She is the best interviewer I have ever heard.
I remember laughing with the guy checking me in when I took my Camry in due to the recall. I didn't think it was the floor mats at the time and never figured out why the driver's didn't put the car in neutral, slam on the brakes, or even try pulling the emergency brake. Note: I've never tried the last one and hope to never have to - not sure what the results would be. The movies make it seem like it makes you do a 180 but not planning on ever testing it.
I think this is the correct reading of the situation. People are incredibly bad decision makers in an emergency. Working in medicine I have watched people make catastrophic mistakes just because things occurred outside of the norm and they didn't know what to do to respond. I'm getting ready to do a lecture in an hour and a half for a group of Physicians and I am going to have to find a very nice way up saying that the mistakes they are making are errors of both omission and commission that are fixable and have rational explanations and that many of their problems stem from an inability to recognize when they are going down the wrong path. And I give this talk 80 times a year. And that number is getting ready to go up and it will be given to a larger audience starting in a couple of weeks. But the message is pretty much always the same. People are bad at making decisions in an emergency and they are blinded by the wrong variables when the decisions they do make go awry.
I often lose track of my cursor. Furious movements of the trackball follow. Grace under pressure it certainly isn't.
*This is all exacerbated by having two monitors, one 28" and one 23".
Heading out to celebrate my last grandparent’s 90th birthday. Fortunate to be able to do it in person.
Hopefully, not bad news. I just got this in one of my e-mail accounts:
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