Though I wasn’t in a hurry, I was eager to move forward with my errand: there are things in life in which we should revel and take time, and there are things that exist that exist simply to be moved through, to be gotten done with — and a balanced life lends patience to the former but efficiency to the latter, as efficiency exists in a healthy environment to get to the good stuff as quickly as possible.
Pulling into the parking lot, the car immediately in front of me was an attractive, low-riding truck. The few large speed bumps between the destination and me would have been barely noticeable and quickly surpassed by my simple, stock vehicle and we would have been on our way without barely a glance. However, these ultimately came to be a great obstacle to the truck preceding me, and therefore, consequently, me, as the truck’s attractive design forced the vehicle to take a ridiculous amount of time and to drive diagonally as well, thereby taking up the entire driveway area and turning the stupid into an entire event. It was an amazing example of sadly counterproductive design. No, it is not enough to be pretty — the truly beautiful is also in some way useful.
