DON’T JUST DO SOMETHING, SIT THERE!!!!!!
By noderel:
Attend. Hear Me. Let someone else do everything. Don’t bother to get involved. Fully ninety percent of you hot rod enthusiasts will do just this, for most of the coming year! You will sit on your dead ass, fully content to let someone else put on a rod run or create a car show or help a charity. Like, maybe even lay on the couch while the other half does the dishes, hangs out the laundry, mows the lawn. Bummer Dude, what a downer. But, this is unfortunately the truth. It is so now, and it has always been so. In fact, it is a broad spectrum of life.
A fact of life with any semi organized group of individuals, banded together in a very tight or a very loose combination for some (often) nebulous goal. As a general rule, within any such an organization, at least 80 percent will remain idle while 20 percent make things happen. Nothing wrong with all that, because that means those in the large majority don’t have to do anything except maybe lend mouth service, and with luck, not even vocal support. In short, we can belong to a car club and get the benefits without doing anything really supportive. Except taking advantage of other people’s efforts. Hey, win-lose is better than having to do anything!
But there is a downside to this. If no one bothers to step up and do the work, there won’t be a rod run, or a drag race, or a car show. Or even a car club. Of course, if there isn’t any of this car stuff to do, then maybe we can all just go off and do something else. Horses? Flowers? Rock collecting? Surely there is something going on that we can reap all the benefits from, but not do any of the leg work!