Greetings from my NEW HOME

Hey, everybody.
I miss all of you guys. I'm not totally bored here or anything, but it's not exactly like being home for the summer.

I'm not going to really be using this to update you all on my life. If you want to know, just call and ask me. Or facebook, the new phone.

Now, down to the nitty gritty.
This is something people say all of the time, but I really think they fail to realize how true it is. Every single person on this planet is short-sighted, and only cares about immediate gratification instead of long term benefit.
I blogged pretty recently about gasoline. The entire gasoline and automobile industry is based on a need for immediate gratification!
But the worst thing was what I saw today.

As a bit of an explanation, the Lowe's in Siloam has one main entrance, and one main exit, on opposite sides of the building. You cannot enter through the exit or exit through the entrance. It's not very efficient, but hey, I didn't design it.

I drove up to Lowe's (for like the third time in 2 days) to return some stuff I had bought. It took me some time to notice it, but as I was parking I realized that everyone, not just some or even most, but every single person who was parked at this Lowe's had parked in front of the entrance. This means that they had a short walk into the store, but the walk out of the store would require a long haul - including all of the hardware that they had just purchased - around the entire building. I saw a couple guys doing just that with a REFRIGERATOR!

Everybody was so concerned about getting that parking spot close to the entrance. You know, they drive up and down the lanes looking for the closest spot, when really they were just setting themselves up for frustration in 15 minutes.

It was hilarious.

You know, I read somewhere that the vast majority of drivers are only looking like 5 or 6 seconds ahead, when really we need to be looking 10 or 20 seconds ahead for safety's sake. Ridiculous. Is instant gratification really worth that? Does it make you happy to delay inevitable pain? Everybody says to work before you play, and get the hard part out of the way first, but nobody does it.

I'm certainly guilty of this, too, I just think people are sillyheads.