The Law of the Garbage Truck

[Bolas 5]

I got this on MySpace today:

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"The Law of the Garbage Truck"

I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his breaks, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly.

So I asked, "Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!"

This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, "The Law of the Garbage Truck."

He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.

The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so.....

"Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don't."

If you look at what you do not have in life, you don't have anything. If you look at what you have in life, you have everything.

When I first read this I was thinking that the law would be something like those that cut people off will eventually do it to a garbage truck that can't or won't stop in time and will hit them.

I agree with the don't take it personally. Karma will catch up. Eventually people that treat others badly will do it to the wrong person and pay the consequences when they meet their "garbage truck." We all will play the garbage truck at some point in our lives.

Kinda the same as above but a li'l more vengeful but seemingly more just.
Of course when one person is really angry and the other person doesn't seem phased by them, that can just make them angrier too.

Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting
If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.

[Squeak 17]

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Of course when one person is really angry and the other person doesn't seem phased by them, that can just make them angrier too.

Especially when you just laugh at them

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[vskydiver 0]

I like that! Very nice.

[stitch 0]

Sniffing glue is bad, m'kay.

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[vskydiver 0]

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Sniffing glue is bad, m'kay.

You would know! Now stop it!

[cocheese 0]

Then there is the law that states: The garbage truck will arrive before you put out the trash and not come til the next day when you do.

[shropshire 0]

Great [url]philosophy


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I guess that you missed his point, somewhat.. You shouldn't even be thinking about what happens to them in their future. Don't worry that they will get their's eventually, it should mean nothing to you. Forget it an move on.... Completely

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[Bolas 5]

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Great philosophy


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I guess that you missed his point, somewhat.. You shouldn't even be thinking about what happens to them in their future. Don't worry that they will get their's eventually, it should mean nothing to you. Forget it an move on.... Completely

I didn't miss his point I just didn't entirely agree with it.

To me the only way I can let people "get away" with things is know that if they continue to do similar things eventually it will catch up them. The key word is continue.

In the hypothetical scenario if it was just a guy that was normally a calm courteous driver but for some reason "snapped" or was just having a bad day (we all have those) to me that's tolerable. But I have 0 way of knowing that.

My personal philosophy is most times actions aren't as important as trends.

In my mind (since I have no knowledge of this person other than our one interaction) I rationalize my behavior as:

* They may just be having a bad day.
* If they always or routinely act like this, it will catch up to them eventually.

At that point I can usually let it go. If I can't then I may confront them and become their "garbage truck."

Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting
If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.

[shropshire 0]

Thanks for the reply... I actually quite like his theory... could save one a load of stress. I'm not so convinced by Karma because bad people are only guaranteed to "Get Theirs" in Holywood where as in the real world loads of them get away, quite litterally with murder.

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome