For the record......

Lotta stress these days.....not talking about me now, but the rest of y’all.....I haven’t been driving for awhile. Too many chemicals. Thursday afternoon, I drove out to O’vale and back. Same on Friday.....Traffic doesn’t seem to be any heavier than normal but faster....jerkier..... More impatient. People are using their horns more. And certainly more hand gestures....
I expect it’s the economy stupid thing that we keep hearing on all the media shows.....and that’s a pretty good reason to feel stressed. I remember feeling depressed years ago and going to a psychologist. I recited my litany of troubles and recall him saying that I “had a right to feel depressed.” I don’t remember that actually being of any help to me and I don’t think that being told over and over that our economy is tanking is going to make anyone feel better....
For the record, I’m optimistic about the economy. That may be unrealistic but, what the Heck? I’m an American. Everyone knows that Americans are cockeyed optimists. “so they called me a cockeyed optimist, immature and incurably green.” sang Nellie Forbush in South Pacific.
And again for the record, I’ve been called worse.
Justin Other Smith