Are You A Garbage Truck?

[Biblereader]

LAW OF THE GARBAGE TRUCK


One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly.

So I asked, "Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!" This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, "The Law of the Garbage Truck."

He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, selfishness, rage, hatred, unforgiveness, and disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.

The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so..... "Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don't."

 

[Alabaster]

ly liked that. Thanks for sharing that with us here! I will remember it when I am tempted to be unholy at my next encounter with a bad driver next time!

 

[Biblereader]

You're welcome.
If you REALLY want to be uplifted, look at that video I just posted, in General Talk.

Someone sent it to me, and it made me cry, it was so beautiful!!

 

[Alabaster]

Thanks and I did look at it. I have seen it before. It is a beautiful dramatic expression of God ever regarding us.

 

[robk]

LAW OF THE GARBAGE TRUCK



He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, selfishness, rage, hatred, unforgiveness, and disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally.

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How true! 99 times our of 100 what a person gets angry at you, it isn't you they are angry at, but something else that happened to them before.
Great story!

In Christ,
Rob K

 

[Biblereader]

Yes, if only I could remember that!!
Pray for me!

 

[Malachi45]

When I saw the heading of your thread, I thought totally different to what I read. I have seen this many times and it is a good lesson to practice the wisdom of it all.

Today, I was driving down our four lane highway, and I was in the slow lane on the left, which is the opposite to you Yankee guys. Anyway, there was a driver in front of me who was travelling slightly slower than me, and there was a car in the next lane to my right driving at my speed, so I moved over to that lane to follow the other car at a sensible speed.

As I was about to reach the other slow car and to pass it by. Yep, they moved over into the lane in front of me, still driving at their slow speed.

Now in that split second, I asked myself why would they do that, when there were no other cars in front of them. So I then moved back into the left hand lane, and guess what, as soon as I began to approach that car to pass it, they moved back into the left lane in front of me, still at that slow speed. Why?

Yep, they were full of garbage, and the rats where breeding there in their garbage and they knew know different.

Anyway, I moved back into the next lane to pass, and in doing so, I noticed a large-extended size limousine approaching me at a fast speed, in excess of the speed limit, 110kph (66 mph). And next minute it was on my tail, and guess what, it moved into the left lane where the slow car was poddering along, and tried to pass me on the inside and slip in in front of me. But---the limousine was two car lengths long, and there was only a one-car length space between me and the car in front of me. :crazyeyes:

Wow, garbage trucks.

Anyway, the other part of the story was this limousine backed off, and he was pocketed in and couldn't go anywhere in that lane. As we approached the merge off lane to a secondary road, which we all exited on, the limousine accelerated and went past me, and zig zagged all the way, exceeding the speed limit by at least 20kph (12 mph), passing all other cars in front of them.

After watching him disappear in the distance, I caught up to him sitting at the "red light". Now, I know what he wanted to do, he just wanted to get to those "red lights" before I did??? :D

Actually, I had taken his rego number, as I felt he should be reported to his company for reckless driving. But, I then thought if I do that, he was only trying to keep up a timetable to pick up a customer and he was late, and if I did he could be sacked.

Yep, garbage truck!

But, I also have followed some other good advice from another well-known anointed person, and I adapted their advice to my own thoughts, which I try hard to practice, but sometimes to no vail, and they are:

Most people are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centred. Therefore, to become reasonable, logical, and Christ-centred, then we need to love and forgive them, anyway.

When we express goodness and kindness for the community, some may accuse us of a selfish, ulterior motive. Therefore, we keep doing good and being kind to everyone, anyway.

If we are successful, we may win some false friends, and certainly some true enemies. Therefore, we keep succeeding for His Kingdom, anyway.

The goodness and kindness we do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Therefore, we keep doing good and being kind to everyone, anyway.

Honesty, frankness, and truthfulness will make us vulnerable. Therefore, we keep being honest, frank, and truthful, anyway.

What we spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Therefore, we keep building, anyway.

People who really want help and advice may attack us if we help and advise them. Therefore, we keep helping and advising them, anyway.

We give the world the best we have and can, and we may get hurt. Therefore, we give the world our best, anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between our Lord Jesus Christ, and us because it was never between them, and us anyway.

 

[Biblereader]

Wow, what a crazy day on your highways!
People play around driving their cars, and use them as weapons, and as a means
to control others, or at least, make them mad.

What a day YOU had!