Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. This past winter we've had a lot of rain in Southern California and one of the effects of the rain is green and flowers.

The hillsides are beautiful with all the colors of the vibrant flowers that are blossoming

because of all the rain. Near my home, there's a road called the Otago Highway and it runs right through the local mountains.

It's a beautiful winding road and we went on it yesterday to see the flowers in the green hills, and it truly was magnificent.

Because it's a windy road, it's mostly a single lane, and they have pullouts, but there aren't

too many times where you can pass someone unless they pull out.

Well, as we were driving along this beautiful road and really enjoying the hillside

and just all the vibrant colors, there was a convertible car that came behind us and the driver was clearly

in a hurry even though he had his top down and I'm not sure why he wasn't trying to enjoy

the beautiful hills. But we pulled out and let him get by, but the car in front of us didn't.

And for the next 10 minutes, as we're driving through these beautiful hills,

he was honking, he was screaming, he was flashing his lights, he was doing

everything in his power to try to get the car in front of him to pull over. Well, they weren't.

So in the meantime, he was missing out on all the beauty around him.

And unfortunately, I can't imagine the passenger he had driving with him in his convertible

was enjoying herself, as he was so angry.

Well when he finally passed a car in front of us he I felt really was missing out on life

and all the beauty around him because he was in such a hurry and was in such an angry

state just because he had to go a little slower for a little bit of time.

It was very sad. Now my point here isn't the justice man because I'm sure we've all

seen people like him or maybe we've been in that state before too. It's more so to learn

from his mistakes and say okay what was going on here?

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