Cyndi's Two Cents

Take responsibility for your actions

Commentary.

I think I could write a book about the crazy things that happen in my daily life.  I could at least write a sad country song.  I have already penned the first verse:  “I got rear-ended in the drive-thru at my local Chick-fil-A. . “

Not only did the man who drove his uncle’s car into mine while I was ordering my large iced tea have no insurance; he was without a cell phone, driver’s license and shoes.  The proof of insurance card he fished out of the glove compartment as I dialed the police (who would not come since I was on private property) had expired in February of 2013 and belonged to a couple from New York City.

I know it is not politically correct to be intolerant, but this young man’s complete lack of concern floored me.  It wasn’t a bad accident.  No one was injured.  The damage to my car was minimal.  None of those facts should negate the responsibility a person who runs the vehicle they are driving into another person’s car should have.

And of course, to be completely honest, being politically correct is not a priority for me.

I’ll come clean:  the blasé attitude of the unlicensed and uninsured motorist toward me and my dented fender didn’t bring out the best in me.  Try though I may, I struggle with tolerance for those who choose to act stupid.  He was too prepared for my questions to convince me that he was ignorant of the law.

I do understand that car insurance is expensive and life deals us all plenty of financial blows that require us to re-evaluate our expenditures.  However, the shoes retrieved from the backseat, the clothes he was wearing, the scent of expensive cologne, the shopping bag in the front seat from a store I feel is too high-end for my income, and that he was in line to order food at one of the more expensive drive-through restaurants in the town, led me to believe he has access to some money.  Call me a skeptic, but I think this man was trying to play me for a fool.  I think he is a stereotypical spoiled brat, who in his mid-to-late twenties has yet to face any real responsibility on his own.

There are many responsible young men and women in America today, but I continue to be run into (literally) by many who give the “Millennial” generation a bad name.  If we ignore this sort of behavior and allow ourselves to be lulled into a state of acceptance, we aren’t doing them or our country any favors.

I’ve heard many parents say they just want their child to be happy.  Great.  The rest of us would like for your child to be able to add and subtract, hold a job, pay their debts, communicate without a mobile device, be respectful and respectable, and take responsibility for their mistakes.

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