Let’s talk about Pothole Forgiveness Time (PFT).\u00a0 PFT comes into play whenever you are behind the wheel, you drive into a rut or pothole, and all the passengers experience a jolt.\u00a0 When a passenger experiences a jolt, someone is to blame, but the time from blame to forgiveness (PFT) varies, depending on where one sits in the vehicle.<\/p>\n
If you are the driver, you will forgive yourself for hitting the pothole in one or two seconds.\u00a0 OK, you think, I hit that pothole but we’re all past that now and there’s a lot of road ahead.\u00a0 I’m at the wheel.\u00a0 Let’s keep driving.<\/p>\n
If you are one of the back-seat passengers, you forgive the driver in five seconds or so — you have put your faith in the driver to transport you to the destination and you are not in a position of control.\u00a0 You just raise your eyebrows at the bump in the road, look back and hang on.\u00a0 After a while, you have forgotten about that pothole.<\/p>\n
But if you are the front-seat passenger, the intensity of the jolt is fifteen times that felt by the driver and the back-seat passengers.\u00a0 Your PFT is measured in minutes, if not tens of minutes.\u00a0 You think, I could have avoided that pothole!\u00a0 I can’t believe he didn’t see it!\u00a0 Who is this person, anyway, sitting in the driver’s seat — I can do better than he’s doing, why should I trust him?<\/p>\n
Husbands and wives experiencing PFT lasting more than thirty minutes are advised to leave the vehicle immediately and go directly to bed, where such infractions may be put into proper perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Let’s talk about Pothole Forgiveness Time (PFT).\u00a0 PFT comes into play whenever you are behind the wheel, you drive into a rut or pothole, and all the passengers experience a jolt.\u00a0 When a passenger experiences a jolt, someone is to … Continue reading