Who ever said life was easy was way off. Life is hard, and this is my chance to let it out. I need space for me to learn new things about my self and in the process learn more about the prison inside my brain......
I have this belief that everyone is a little crazy. There is that wild part in them that either comes out all the time, or it only comes out in the privacy of the bathroom when no one is around! Me, well I am the first choice. I don't think it's healthy to be so pruddish as to think that driving in the city and dancing to music while sitting in the car at a red light with hundreds of people around is crazy! Is it always okay to be that sheletered in your own body as to not laugh at someone like that? You see, I have this problem - when I get into a car and a song comes on, well, I just have to dance a little (okay a lot, but I don't distract the diver of the car that I am in, she expects it from me!). It is so much fun to be in the city, jammin to Britney Spears (I don't want to hear no flack from all the BS haters, I love and don't really care if you don't!!) and I just start to dance. Most of the people I encounter on my dancing route smile, some laugh, very rarely is there a point of the finger, and I have never seen a look of disgust! I've even driven down US Route 1, on my way to Dover Air Force Base and danced, and I'm talking arms going, head throwing have a good time dance. We pull up to pay one of the tolls, and the car in the other lane signaled to me to roll down the window. He then says, "Man, you sure are having a good time!" I was like, yeah, I'm just dancing to the music! He told me to keep it up, he payed his toll, and drove off with the biggest smile on his face! I made his day and that of his passengers. Now, I'm not saying that people don't get annoyed by my spontaneous acts of vehicular dancing, but for the most part people just laugh. And you know the funny thing? I could care less if they think that I am crazy and deranged (that's from a Beyonce and Jay-Z song "Crazy in Love," a great song to start car dancing to!!). I am just glad because for one second of that persons day that laughed out loud at seeing some pitiful white boy in a car danicng his ass off!! I don't really know why that makes me happy, but it does. I love to make an ass out of myself for the enjoyment of total strangers. Like I said, if I can make one person smile who is having a miserable day, then my day is all the more better! I know today, the traffic was horrible, stop, go, stop, go for like twenty city blocks, but the time passed by so quickly for me. And of course I put the radio on full blast and danced my ass off, and of course people looked, and smiled and laughed, and then went on about their day. But I know that they are going to be sitting there, eating dinner later on tonight and relay to their family, "oh yeah, I was walking through the city today and all of a sudden this boi comes out of no where and is just dancing in a car, I mean all out dancing (insert laugh) and I could do nothing but laugh at it!" Now, I have made that person day twice!! That is what makes me happy. I love to see a smile on other peoples face because it puts a smile on my face! Of course I know some people can't do that! Their jobs, their family tell them that doing such a thing is not a good thing, but I am telling you, for one time in your life, do something funny or off the wall and look at the people who smiled at you and laughed. Don't worry if they are laughing at you, just be glad that they are laughing, and for one moment in your day you have made someone else's day!! What a great feeling!! I just wish that people weren't so damn self centered as to believe that life isn't supposed to be fun. There is a saying, "All work and no play makes a man......." I don't remember how the saying goes, but I do know that it says something about being gray and basically boring!! Come on people, LIGHTEN UP A LITTLE!! Enjoy a little bit of insanity, I'm having fun in my insanity, what, you're not having in yours??
Comments
on Dec 30, 2003
Ah! Another car dancer! Hello there!
Life's too short. Might as well dance!

Keep the jam going. For miles of smiles!

And the beat goes on...
Ali-The Misfit Chick
on Dec 30, 2003
I dance in cars too. And sometimes even when there's no music I dance any way. I'm Black, so I REALLY don't care. There really is nothing quite like making an ass of yourself for the greater happiness of mankind. I'm glad I found your blog. There will be another chapter of Jamnia up this weekend, and if you want a better quality version I've been busy making one at jamnia.blogspot.com. I always had this wacky that I'd write a cult classic and people would copy it off the net or something. Here, I've just got a little bitty story that I didn't really know ANYONE would have an interest in, but you like it and that's good and it means that the right things do eventually get to the right people. P.S. I don't trust people who can't dance in cars, and I really don't trust people who DON'T EVEN PLAY MUSIC WHEN THEY DRIVE. Hum?

Yours, Chris at embar.joeuser.com
on Dec 31, 2003
Yeah, you're right... Its like I have always said, "everyone is crazy, its just that some conceal it better than others." Sounds like you aren't doing a very good job of concealing yours but, thats ok. Just be sure your foot don't slip off the brake and you'll be fine. GCJ