One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport . We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a 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 street. The bottom line is that successful people don’t 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. Forgive the ones who don’t.’
Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it!
Thanks Joe P
And crazy people also carry guns.
and if that doesn’t work, put a turd in their mailbox
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.
How the hell can you move on when you’re pinned under a big truckload of somebody else’s garbage? What you need to do is dig out, find the guy who dumped his crap on you, and do what ya gotta do!
“The bottom line is that successful people don’t let garbage trucks take over their day.”
I never realize how successful cab drivers are.
HW- Success is in how you measure it. Cab Drivers, like truck drivers, have an amazing amount of freedom. They make good money, they have flexible home time to some extent, it is a job that works around other schedules, and it is interresting. Plus, the view is better than the one from your cubicle.