18 OCTOBER 2024 WorldWide Drilling Resource® The “Idiots” Corner by “Billy Bob Smith” Go Ahead, Run and Hurry - Maybe to Your Demise I don’t care how fast you drive, eat, or do anything. None of these will give you one more minute of life. So why do idiots do everything faster hoping that they will have more time in life? Yes, if you eat faster, you may have more time for dessert. And yes, if you drive faster, you may get home in time to watch your favorite TV show, but in the end, you might be amazed at how doing anything faster might just create more problems than benefits. So, I thought since I am honked at an average of ten times a day (by drivers behind me) because I am not driving fast enough, it was time to shed some simple consequences idiots inherit due to their behavior or their socalled “faster behavior.” You know I’m a big fan of quotes, so here’s a few in case you might be too: “Doing things faster is no substitute for doing things right.” ~Stephen Covey “Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.” ~Gandhi “I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.” ~Isaac Asimov “Speed, quality, price - what if you can only get one?” ~James M. Wallace “In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.” ~B. C. Forbes Okay, here are a few stupid things idiots do while doing things faster: 0 I can almost guarantee if you always drive faster than the speed limit, sooner or later you are going to have an accident - could even be fatal! 0 Just because you want everything or some things to happen on your schedule, is no guarantee they will. 0 I overheard a customer in a restaurant tell the server, “Have the cook hurry my meal, I am in a hurry for an appointment, but I need the burger well-done.” The server responded, “Sir, can you see that our restaurant is quite busy, and your order will join the que as scheduled?” He responded, “Well, if you can’t meet my schedule, I will have to go to a different establishment.” She said, “Have a nice day.” Hello! Wake up, dude, the world doesn’t revolve around your schedule. 0 Several years ago, I was flying to a country thousands of miles away and the person sitting next to me was what I refer to as a “part-time idiot” on their way to becoming a “full-time idiot.” The pilot announced we would be late landing due to a busy airport. This dude said, “I can’t believe this, I am going to miss an important meeting.” I finally asked him, “You do know that there are only two ways we land.” He said, “What do you mean?” So I gave him my standard answer. “We are either going to crash or land on the runway. Which would you prefer, ‘cause if we crash, you will miss your meeting too.” 0 A few years ago, I was in the hospital for some routine but important surgery. My roommate said he was in the hospital for an important operation on his back to relieve his lifelong pain. Then he said the operation was postponed a couple of days due to some stupid family emergency the doctor had. The staff then told him if he wanted it on schedule, there was a new doctor on staff who had recently joined the hospital, but this would be his first operation of this type. Let me ask you, how would you handle this issue? 0 Yesterday, I saw some dumb kid riding a motorcycle weaving in and out through the line of traffic - had to be going over 60 miles per hour. Sorry folks, sooner or later with this type of activity, you are “outa here.” How about one more quickie? 0 I was standing in line at the grocery store and I watched this lady behind me move from line to line hoping to get faster service (no, they didn’t have self-checkout). She did this four times, but I still ended up checking out before she did. I decided to watch her while she went through her crazy activity of trying to finish quicker rather than slower by keep switching lines and guess what - it took her over 25 minutes to finally check out, but if she had stayed behind me, it might have only taken her ten. I have to ask you, have you ever observed any circumstances of hurry type people like the above? Are you one of them? I could go on for pages with this stuff, but I’ll wager either: 1) If you are a speed person, you didn’t even get this far reading this brief article and have moved on to something else on your “To-Do” list or 2) You agree with much of the above and have tried to stop and smell the roses whether your kids, life, health, family - whatever. Life is short, folks, and you don’t get more time by rushing. Yes, you might get to the next item on your to-do list. You might get home sooner to play with your kids, but what if the rush doesn’t work due to someone else being in a hurry and causes you to have an accident? Billy Bob Contact him via e-mail to michele@worldwidedrillingresource.com “If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.” ~Jim Rohn
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