One can expect that travel on the Sunday after Thanksgiving will be hazardous. Everyone is returning home after four days of celebration and the only thought is getting to the destination. Some people will want to take risks to get home as quickly as possible.
I take the approach that I’ll get there when I get there. There’s no use fretting about speeding cars or slow traffic; it is better to just accept that there will be speeders and traffic jams, and that eventually the journey will end.
Unfortunately, not everyone feels that way, and they get impatient and take foolish risks — zipping in and out of lanes and accelerating to get around a car that is traveling at the speed limit, rather than 10, 20, or more miles above the speed limit. This year, I encountered three accidents because people couldn’t wait.
As I drove, I thought about the journalists who have become impatient, willing to risk their reputations — or cast their reputations aside — in order to get the story they’re seeking. Like the speeders on the highway, they will zip in and out of lanes without regard to personal risk or the risks to others.
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