Follow The Leader

Human beings are such a bundle of contradictions! They work so hard to get to the top, to be the ones giving all the orders, the ones making all the important decisions, getting all the credit. But when it comes to the little things that even a simpleton wouldn't have trouble comprehending, they suddenly decide that they couldn't care less about what goes on, even when they know perfectly well the consequences of ignoring what should be done. I am referring to a particular intersection I pass every morning to get to college. Now this intersection seldom has a cop standing there in the mornings... guess they just don't feel like getting their fat butts out of bed... Man do I know the feeling! Anyways, since this intersection has noone manning it, there's always motorists happily ignoring the traffic lights and going on without even slowing down when the red light comes on. For a few mornings I too followed the crowd and went on. Then I realised that I'd become one of those morons on the road whom I always enjoy cursing at so much. So one morning, just as an experiment, I pointedly stopped at the intersection, just to see what would happen. Would they also stop or would I be the only one stopped there, I wondered. And to my surprise, every single person there stopped their vehicle! Not one person went on past us. Then the green light came on and the silent, unwritten race began. The second that light goes green, every person there accelerates as if his life depended on it. Anyway, so now I take some wierd kind of pride in being the first one to stop there.
Oh and another very strange intersection habit that people seem to have been born with is this irritating habit of honking everybody out of the way when there's still a good 10 seconds left for the light to turn green. So, just to prove a point, I wait till it counts down all the way to 1 and only then do I budge. Man, I cannot BEGIN to tell you what a pleasure it is to piss people off by doing the right thing... it's awesome. And this one time, I even talked really loudly on my cell, while I was on a call with my mom, and said something like," Ok mom, I have to go. There's only another 30 seconds left and all these fools will insist on moving at 20 itself" Ha!!! The guilty looks on the faces of all the motorists around me! What a Kodak moment! Every one there had been intending to do the very thing I'd indirectly accused them of wanting to do, and can you believe it, not ont of them started their bikes before 5! That was just So cool! And it got me thinking... How come people only think about doing the right thing when they think somebody else is watching them? Everyone sits and delivers long sermons to their kids about always doing the right thing, following rules because it's for their own good... that's what you call talking out of your ass! If you don't follow rules, why do you pretend to be some kind of saint? Just come out with it and say" Ok fine, I don't follow rules. I'm a terrible citizen and it's because of people like me that our country is in the pitiable state it's in." At least then you'll be an honest terrible citizen. Otherwise you're just a weasel!
So look for instances you can make better just by doing your part. People will follow. And who knows how many accidents and misfortunes you could be preventing?