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Cognitive Error
It's always the same thing with motorcyclists, they think they own the road" said David as he sat in his car stuck in mid-morning traffic. The motorcyclist zoomed past him through the narrow gap between him and another car. David looked over at the other driver who was on the cell-phone. He gestured at the motorcyclist and shook his head at his fellow car driver in a bid to say, "Jerks, the?" David figured the other driver probably felt the same way, because he too shook his head and continued with his conversation on the phone.
David was getting fidgety as the traffic showed no signs of easing up. Probably some accident he thought, then said out loud, "Probably some woman not looking where she's going. It's always a woman." He slapped his steering wheel and looked at the clock. 11:42 it said. He was definitely late. David knew they were very firm on tardiness, but he figured they liked him so it wouldn't matter. It wouldn't matter that he's always late, but they liked him so it was okay. It didn't matter that he had been...
Besides, he rationalized, he works plenty of overtime hours on the weekend and late at night, being a little late in the morning shouldn't matter too much.
The traffic eased a little and David could see the flashing lights up ahead. He wondered how serious the accident was. He couldn't see any debris or crunched up cars, so figured it couldn't be too serious. David wondered if there was going to be a body on the road. There was too much traffic stopped up for a simple bumper incident, or flat tire. David cringed; he didn't want to see any blood or bodies. Things like that made him squeamish and always made him wonder if it could happen to him. "I'm too young to go through something like that," he found himself saying out loud, "I haven't had kids yet."
David's lane started to move, and he tried not to look as he passed the scene, but he couldn't help it. There were no bodies, thank…
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