Mundane Monday: A March Senryu

Driving in traffic

And waiting at stop light

Patience is required

All Day in Doctors’ Offices

I spent all day Friday in doctors' offices
and learned
that I'm going to have to start taking
peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with me
when I leave the house.

I ate breakfast,
but didn't eat anything else
until Mom and I arrived back home
after 2:00 PM.

My ulcer protested the empty stomach
and I started getting irritated at traffic lights
on the way home;
Las Vegas traffic is always irrigating,
so I can't use it as an indicator of my irradiation level,
but when I start getting irritated at traffic lights
I know I have a problem.

I spent all day in doctors' offices yesterday,
not because I had appointments,
but because my mother had them
so I wasn't alone in the offices;
still the waiting is tiring,
and apparently raises the blood pressure
because Mom's blood pressure was up slightly
after the first wait.

This is life
after the age of 60
the blood pressure rises
and ulcers act up
when one doesn't take precautions.

Let's face it
old age isn't for wimps.

Multitasking in Las Vegas Traffic

I'm fairly sure a person can't drive and write in a journal at the same time. True I've never tried it, but I suspect that it's dangerous at least. I've witnessed drivers attempting to multitask while driving in Las Vegas traffic and I'm convinced that most of what they were attempting to do while driving was distracting.

I've seen a lot of people talk on cell phones while driving. I'm sure this is distracting. I used to have a cell phone I carried in my purse, but it was in my purse and difficult to get to if it ring. Besides, that's why you have voice mail with a cell phone to pick the calls up you can't when you're doing something else.

A cell phone is like any other telephone, it's a connivance. Simply because a phone rings doesn't mean you have to answer it. That's why answering machines were invented. I seem to have gotten off track in this entry. I started out saying a person can't make a journal entry and drive at the same time. I think I should have qualified that with, you can't make an entry in a pen and paper journal or an on-line journal and drive.

A person can always compose their journal entry using a voice-activated tape recorder. Of course, the mere act of composing a journal entry is probably distracting and perhaps impossible. I would end up activating the recorder when I yelled out the window at another driver for not using turn signals when changing lanes.