"Drive carefully, Dear!"

i know, the above words is usually said by women, to their husbands/boyfriends (a very serious one)
and most of the time, men feel offended by the words itself...

being women, of course, i'll say that i simply do not understand why men need to drive FAST!!!
what's the big deal, of being 1 / 2 cars ahead of the others, and what's the big difference if you're 5-10 min ahead of the schedule???
IF you're not rushing for life-saving (for eg. ambulance), or still can make it in time for a meeting, i see no reason, why anybody should rush on the road...
really... it makes no difference...
if you're already late for a meeting, you ARE already late... blame it on your bad trip planning, drive fast doesn't really help the situation much...

anyway...
when women said "drive carefully/slowly, dear", it means something... definitely, and a man, for your wife/girlfriend/family, shall at least, try to listen...
first, as a driver (i drive too) all your passengers trust their lives in YOUR hands... or even your functional/non-functional brain - which coordinate the driving process...
as a driver, even if your passenger had to speak out, to request you to drive slower/more carefully... i seriously think, the driver has failed to be the driver, cos, the passengers are already feeling safe no more...

like i've mentioned, companion is very important to me... ie. i've never thought we all live alone... as a lonely island in the middle of nowhere by ourselves... whatever we do, there an effect on others, and vice versa...
for eg. i've just come across a news... which brought me back to the long old memory about a book that i read... written by 劉墉 (Liu Yong)
in the book, he wrote short stories of people he's met, or his friends... one of the stories, is about one of his acquaintances who (husband and wife) never travel together on the same flight, if the children are not with them... reason being... if there's anything happened to them (plane crash!???) there'll still be another one who can take care of their young children...
and today the news i came across, is about the actress Kate Winslet and her husband... who practise exactly as what's mentioned in the story...
ya... hearing it as a story and really seeing somebody practising it, is different...

anyway... like i've mentioned earlier... we all live for somebody...