I led worship again this past Sunday, and I was driving out to church, running a little late. I was just leaving CRW (the married housing where I live) and trying to get onto Rt 1 going north, heading up toward Metuchen. Now, I must say that a year of driving around Atlanta definitely brought out my dad’s Boston-cab-driving skills in me and well, let’s just say I got a little more aggressive. Driving in Jersey doesn’t help me work on that, and so as I was trying to get onto Rt 1, the person ahead of me was not accelerating as one should in the acceleration lane. I don’t know how fast they were going, but it clearly wasn’t enough for me. So I honked.
But I was borrowing our neighbor’s car, and I wasn’t entirely sure that the horn honked (I was listening to music pretty loud in the car) - so I tried it a few more times. And then I was able to get around them and speed off on my way to play guitar and lead people in worship.
I am about 90% sure that the people I sped past were seminarians - who live out at CRW too. And I’m pretty sure this student is in my Calvin class. Oops.
One seminarian-future-pastor honking and speeding past his fellow colleague and future pastor - all so he could get to church and lead in worship.
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Don’t feel bad. It’s how you survive on the road in the Great Garden State. Just don’t do it on Canal Pointe - especially if you are out of state and a person of color. That was a huge issue in the past. I hope it has changed.
BTW - I lived in Emmons 308B for two years. The Projects of West Windsor as we called it :-)
As a Yankee myself, I for one am proud to hear you’ve developed your Yankee driving skills.
Found you through Blogrush. Nice to see another Presbymergent in the blogosphere. Cheers!
You honked, but you didn’t flip him off?
Dude, that’s so… Delaware. : )
Don’t blame your aggressive driving skills on me - I never honked.