The title of this blog was not twitch. Nope. It wasn't. It was something else entirely. The blog was well underway. It was witty. You would have liked it. Then . . .
twitch.
Something happened, down near the left corner of my keyboard. I twitched and smacked a few keys and flat out erased a couple blog entries. Impressive.
Not a big deal. They weren't earth shattering thoughts. But they were quite a bit more interesting than a blog about a twitch. So I will attempt to redeem this blog.
Today, I twitched. (Earlier, I'm talking about an earlier one.) I'm driving my Hyundai. (Fine cars, by the way.) My right thumb twitched and honked the horn. This is common. I often honk for no better reason than the thumb decides to do so.
Today there was a car in front of my honking thumb. I do not think it was a Hyundai. Maybe if the driver was driving a similar car, he would have felt a solidarity with me. As it turned out, he did not.
He did, however, also have a finger.
I do not believe it was his thumb. At least it did not look thumby. It appeared taller and more centrally located on his hand, and he seemed in total control of its motion.
I slowed down as he seemed genuinely upset. If I would have known his cell number, I would have called him. "Hey mister, it was only a twitchy thumb. You know how that goes." But he doesn't. He slowed as well and for a moment it seemed like we were headed for a CONFRONTATION. I chastised my thumb. IT looked genuinely apologetic, so I didn't come down too hard on my digit, and soon that big car (Chevy, I think) pulled away.
There, I don't know if that was interesting or not, but maybe it serves as a public service announcement. The jerk (literal) who honks at you may well have a twitchy thumb.
Great! And a good reminder on not judging people.Why do we usually assume that people who do something like honking disprove of us and what we are doing? Are we really that insecure as people?
Posted by: Shary Hauber | March 23, 2010 at 10:00 AM
AGAIN, I smiled reading your reminiscence. It brought to mind an incident driving in my car, probably our 4Runner, about a year ago.
I was with my 20-year-old son and we were just exiting the bank drive through teller. I made a right turn into the parking lot, signaled left and was about to turn on to the main road. All of a sudden a woman in a big black pickup truck drove right in front of me. I honked my horn and gave the driver a dirty look mumbling my frustration, "I was here first. Why don't you look where you're going?"
I impatiently waited so I could complete my turn when I heard my son's reprimand. "Mom, that lady was deaf. I don't think she saw you, or heard your horn. She just signed 'SORRY'." My frustration instantly turned to remorse.
I had recently been taking American Sign Language classes and the teacher had commented on how deaf people view the world. She had probably seen me, out of the corner of her eye, but it was too late. She felt bad and tried to apologize, but I didn't "see" her language, and she didn't "hear" my initial caution with the horn. I felt bad.
This lady didn't set out to ruin my day. I'm sure she wasn't intentional with her poor driving. But, I was intentional in my need to retaliate. She could definitely read my body language, and it was mean and angry.
"God, please give me patience to not judge others too quickly, and help me to overlook an offense."
After all, how many times have I accidentally done something to irritate others? I hope those I have judged unfairly forgive me. God's grace really is sufficient, and humbling.
Posted by: Kmwichterman | March 25, 2010 at 07:34 PM
heeheee!! I twitched the other day and hit the horn, too. It was funny to me, not so much the folks in front of me.
My kids wondered why the other drivers look perturbed.
Thankfully, the other drivers did not have a twitchy middle finger. That would have a terrible conversation to have with my kiddos!
Posted by: Donna Earnhardt | May 14, 2010 at 11:22 PM
Keep your cool, Jonathan. We'll never know if the other driver had a bad mood or not. And just a piece of friendly advice: when someone raises a finger at you while driving, say 'thank you' and let the anger dissipate. :)
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