Georgia Pok Guy

If you spend enough time in Howard County, you are bound to notice the green bumper stickers which implore you to “Choose Civility”.  And who could object?  Civil driving should make life easier for everyone, even those who don’t drive (trust me on this one), right?  And wouldn’t it be better to give someone a tip of the hat because they let you in, as opposed to being flipped off by someone who just cut you off as they crossed twain lanes of traffic to reach an off ramp?  Surely, even in this hat averse day, the former is preferred behavior?  And yet, the bumper stickers mask the ugly reality.  I was recently cut off by someone sporting one of these green bumper stickers who was quite in a hurry to get to a nearby filling station (which, in a fit of karma, was out of gas).  Now, in a way, one might expect this behavior, for you see, the subtext of the bumper sticker reads “In Howard County”.  That is to say, the choice of civility extends only to the Howard County line, over which anything is fair game.  But the aforementioned incident, so cruel to my gentle soul, happened within the county, at least a mile if not more!  Oh, how my county view has been shattered!  Never can I drive these wild streets expecting even a modicum of civility!  The only law of the Howard County roads, apparently, is the law of nature, cut off or be cut off!