Sometimes life is like NASCAR. You go around in circles really really fast, as fast as you can, and even under the best conditions sometimes people die. One of the things that made NASCAR fascinating for me was learning (from an actual driver) how they use the slipstream of the car ahead of them to gain just enough speed to pass that same car. They use each other to get ahead. Naturally this involves tailgating in it's purest and most deadly form. Drivers are struggling to get closer to each other - so they can get away from each other. And sometimes there is a mistake. A little thing. A twitch, or a small wind, and suddenly that one inch is six inches and you're sent flipping 200 MPH into the wall - or into other drivers. Sometimes people die. Always they learn.
You make these calls every day, these tiny decisions that are almost negligible in their isolated effect, and every so often a small breeze comes along and
Posted by Matt at December 12, 2003 05:20 PM