All Posts Tagged With: "traffic"

Were you ever driving down the freeway, doing the speed limit in the slow lane, and minding your own business, when this happens: some jerk with low self-esteem issues, and a penchant for breaking the law, starts wailing on the horn behind you? These are the perfect conditions for road rage, and almost everybody has dealt with this a#@hole (or one of his cousins). The only difference between you and the rest of their victims is this: you’re actually going to win this battle by doing nothing. Yea, you heard me right …

First, get a grip on your emotions. This will prevent fisticuffs in the near future, which was started with silly hand gestures, dangerous driving and a bunch of hate speech (thrown in for good measure). Remember this: if you’re angry at someone on the road, you have a few options to help calm yourself down. You can 1) pull your car over till he leaves, 2) refrain from making eye contact for now, or 3) dial 911. Any of these will help you relax, and will make this loser go away and suffer future consequences with someone else. You then become the clear-cut winner by not responding to his “dip@*it” comment (they hate when smart people do this). Continued

Ok, she did it – she forced you to sell your stuff (she called it junk). Again!

You’ve played this game before, but somehow only wound up making like $15 for the thousands you spent on the stuff in the first place. This time however, you did it right: you got your ad in the paper early (two weeks early to be exact) and you posted it all over Craigslist. People have been calling you all week about it, because you were smart enough to put your phone number in the ad, which stated, “Call if you have any questions.” Timing and placement of your ads are certainly critical, and you have this all covered. Good for you!

On the date of this big event, you have a lot of good things to sell (despite what she says) and only a little time to do it in. It’s the night before the big event and you’re starting to get nervous now, so let me help you out — I’ve done this lots and lots of times already, and I consider myself somewhat of an expert. If you truly want to make back some of the money that the retailers “stole” from you, and you also want to keep your shoppers honest, please read on …

Before the early-birders get there (at like 6:00 am [these people are sick]) make sure you did the following: Continued