Actions Matter


        This will make you stop and think about our actions. You never know who is watching!!!

        I was sitting at a stop light this morning. The lady in front of me was going through
        papers on the seat of her car, and when the light changed to green she did not obey its
        command - a green light is a commandment - NOT a suggestion.

        When the light turned to red, and she had still not moved, I began (with my windows up)
        screaming epithets and beating on my steering wheel. My expressions of distress were
        interrupted by a policeman, gun drawn, tapping on my window.

        Against my protestations of, "You can't arrest me for hollering in my car," he ordered me
        into the back seat of his. After about two hours in a holding cell, the arresting
        officer advised me I was free to go. I said, "I knew you couldn't arrest me for what I was
        yelling in my own car. You haven't heard the last of this."

        The officer replied, "I didn't arrest you for shouting in your car. I was directly behind
        you at the light. I saw you screaming and beating your steering wheel, and I said to myself,
        "What a jerk. But there is nothing I can do to him for throwing a fit in his own car. Then
        I noticed the 'Cross' hanging from your rear view mirror, the bright yellow 'Choose
        Life' license tag, and the 'Jesus is Coming Soon' bumper sticker, and I thought you
        must have stolen the car."

        Actions do matter.

        Author Unknown