Have you ever witnessed a car driving down the road at full speed and suddenly have a tire just fall off of it. It is kind of a crazy thing to see. The tire keeps rolling, it goes one way and the car another. You just hope for the sake of other drivers it doesn’t cross over in front of them causing an accident. It can be quite an experience for the driver of said car. He has to maintain the course and keep his car upright and not lose control of it. Even for the most experienced driver this can be a dangerous undertaking. I’ve witnessed it and it is a crazy scene. Luckily for the driver involved he wasn’t hurt. He was also fortunate to be driving on a deserted country road in Alabama and his tire rolled several hundred yards and came to a rest on the side of the road on a grassy shoulder.
Once that wheel came off the driver of that car was most likely afoot. He was not going to be able to fix it on the spot. There were probably stripped lug nuts as well as some of the lugs had probably snapped off. Most people don’t carry those around in their vehicle. There could have been some other major problem with the wheel causing it to suddenly come off. So a quick repair was out of the question. Call AAA and get a tow truck and get that vehicle headed towards town to get it repaired. That’s probably the most logical of decisions. You don’t need a group of auto engineers on the scene trying to figure out a solution and writing up a plan of action report. At that moment the auto manufacturer need not get involved, that might come later depending on the cause of the problem. The problem just needs to be addressed and corrected. Let’s get it fixed.
Here we are in America (our Cadillac). We are cruising along at the posted speed limit, ain’t breaking no laws. We got the radio cranked up listening to our favorite song. Okay mister I can’t carry a tune in a bucket, the key word is listening to the radio. We are just relaxing and taking in the scenery, maybe a Sunday drive. Then out of the blue all four wheel just fly off the car. What was to be an easy peasy lazy Sunday afternoon drive has turned into a nightmare. We are left in the middle of the road stranded.
Okay maybe that’s a little extreme or is it. I will let you be the judge. He is the real scenario. We are living in a world fascinated with tragic news. We have news channels that glorify and exalt the tragic story to use it as a means for ratings. They all want to be the first to bring you an exclusive look at the derailing of some one’s life. They want you to understand what brought this evil person to that point. They want to give them their 15 minutes of fame. They want to have this person’s face everywhere. We have countless post of the evil on social media as well. It spreads like wildfire. You are inundated with all of these horrific crimes. This is all we see anymore. When that story rubs its course they bring us another maybe more tragic. We seem to get more upset when someone kills a puppy than a loss of a human life. I think killing a puppy is a sorry thing to do and a person who hurts a defenseless animal should be punished. I think that a person who takes a human life should face more of a punishment. Then we have people who aren’t content unless they are fueling the flames of a race war. They spread hate and ignorance to any one that will listen. This in turn causes more acts of violence and horrific crimes. It’s a never ending cycle. Look I get that we need to be aware of what’s going on around us, but it doesn’t need to be tricked up and glamourized. I think the world is becoming more evil. Not only do we have to worry about those outside of our country wishing to do us harm, it seems now more than ever there are those inside wishing us harm. I am a little apprehensive about going to a dark movie theater to see a movie these days. We have a lot of people in Washington trying to put a piece of duct tape (gun laws in this case) on a busted wheel. While they see duct tape(temporary fix) is good for most everything it’s not a great solution in this case. I believe we as a nation have lost our wheels. The leaders of the other countries are either passing us rubber necking as we sit stranded shaking their heads or wagging a finger at us. We have become the laughing stock. We are a You Tube spectacle. We are the traffic jam. Look around what was once our beloved Cadillac is now wheel less. We can sit around while our Washington engineers put a plan of action together or we can get our America picked up and put back together. Its not an easy fix. Years of hatred from all sides. Unwillingness to listen to anyone's point of view. Political parties refusing to work together for the good of a nation. Corporate greed, no morals no filters. It has to change if we want a fix. We have to turn off the crap that only promotes more violence. We as a nation stop watching, the ratings go down and programming changes. If we want a change its up to us, unless we like the negative attention we're getting.
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