Narcissism

Narcissism is the personality trait of egotism, vanity, conceit, or simple selfishness. Applied to a social group, it is sometimes used to denote elitism or an indifference to the plight of others.

I just realized something last Friday on my drive home...first of all, traffic was much lighter than average all week due to spring break. It was a nice break for commuters as well. The light traffic made the boneheads stand out more. Friday was filled with them! First there was the guy weaving in and out of traffic, on the right side, forcing some of us to use our breaks to avoid being hit when he cut in front of us. Then he got in the left turn lane, sped to the light and cut back over into traffic. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt though. I mean, maybe he was on his way to a hospital or there was some family emergency he was practically dying to get to. As far as I know, he didn't actually cause any accidents on the road.

Then there was chick who pulled into the intersection, intentionally, on a yellow, even though traffic was stopped in her lane on the other side of the intersection. She held us up through TWO stop lights. She made me wish I had a baseball bat and the guts to use it. Man that irritates me.

THEN there was the lady who was in the far right lane but wanted to be 3 lanes over to the left, so she stopped. Yep, stopped right there in her lane, in the middle of rush hour traffic, and waited for someone to let her over. It didn't matter that she was inconveniencing HUNDREDS of drivers. She doesn't know any them and doesn't care what they think of her. She could have just been inconvenienced herself and driven another block, turned around and come back. It probably would have taken less time. But noooooo, why inconvenience herself like that? Why you ask? Narcissism.

Me, I would have driven the extra block and turned around. Maybe because I come from California though. She wouldn't have done that in California without being afraid for her very life. Being stupid like that could get you shot! Oh!!! now I get it! That's why Californians did that! They got fed up with people like that. Or maybe I would have driven the extra block to turn around because I was brought up to be considerate of other people. I was brought up to have good manners and not be rude. I was not brought up in a society that teaches me, me, me, it's all about me. I realize now, what makes people do some of the stoooopid things they do ~ narcissism.