The airplane touches down on the tarmac, returning you from a trip that took years of planning and saving. The food was superb, the sites were breathtaking, the weather was spectacular, and your luggage was waiting for you at the baggage carousel upon arrival. Consequently, you feel relaxed and reflective, and planning begins in your mind for the next excursion as you maneuver the car through the maze known as airport parking. No post -vacation blues are in sight yet.
However, as you hurtle down the highway, suddenly, a speeding motorist flashes in front of your car as he darts onto the off-ramp. Shaken but unharmed, this near miss yanks you away from that place of serenity to the painful realization that the everyday grind is back and you
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In addition to sharing your schedule, you may ask people to recontact you after X amount of time if they have not heard from you. This phrasing will subtly remind the caller of the number of messages you will have, and it reduces the pressure on you to respond the first day back. Always include an alternative contact for callers, who have pressing needs, and record or write this message before your final day in the office when you are under less pressure to remember the key points.
To Do List - Create a list of items to do in order of importance before departing the office. The list will allow you to pick up where you left off before vacation without skipping a beat. Scheduling - This advice may not be realistic for everyone, but attempt not to schedule meetings on your first day back. In fact, block out time on the calendar so that no one schedules for you. Teamwork - There is no need to go it alone. Involve your colleagues and ask for their assistance on tasks that are easily transferable during your absence and reciprocate when they vacation.
Back in the
Nevertheless, fifty yards from her dearest friend Estelle Louise’s dirt driveway, the truck’s bald tires skidded across a massive oil slick. As a result, the pickup spins uncontrollably in loose circles as it continues down the middle of the narrow country road, before it finally slithers sideways and abruptly stops. She guffaws when she realized the Chevy had
In Plano, Texas, many drive to get from place to place, but for this suburban mom’s fear of driving has gotten difficult. For Kalika Patel, driving was never a difficult task, but through past experiences it has gotten difficult. She said this “started when I was running regular errands, but suddenly my blood pressure increased, and I became dizzy” This may not sound like anything major, but after this first incident, this occurred to her many other times. Mrs. Patel said “this kept happening over and over again, finally it felt as it was an anxiety problem” Currently, she still deals with anxiety, but she said “that [her] condition has gotten much better from the few years ago, when this innocent first occurred,” as she told our news team.
1. Weekly Planning – Observing weekly tasks, prioritising short term jobs and allocating time slots for a weeks’ worth of work. Included would be allocated time frames and tasks for the days, setting out what needs to be done and for how long. Even such things as going through emails, talking with staff, having computer input and discussing matters of importance should be included to reduce stress and time pressures from the individual. This creates a meaningful and realistic plan for greater time management and something to aim for while undertaking tasks for the greatest efficiency.
All in all, the purpose of this story is to show that even if you think that things are all okay, a minor speed bump can hit anytime and you need to be ready no matter
It hit hard enough that the driver hit the steering wheel and was knocked unconscious, and never did stop, and dragged us about 100 and some feet down the road” (Chevalier). That moment when he was hit is something that Wayne will never forget. Even though he gained minor injuries from it, the traumatic moment where he saw others lose their life caused him to remember those short seconds
The car crashing aspect of Party Crashing carries a oneness with pain and anxiety that more similarly aligns with Ballard’s celebration of an identity at risk, walking the abject margin between life and death, reiterated when Green Taylor Simms elucidates, “When you’re aboard a motor vehicle, death passes within a finger’s length every few moments. Anytime a vehicle passes mine in the oncoming lanes, I could be subjected to torture more violent and painful than anything the world’s dictators would ever stoop to inflict,” (Palahniuk 170). Normativity is eschewed as a meaningless system for control that attempts to deny the natural abjection of life that includes violence and has no regard for the social and medical restrictions that hope to delay and distance one from the precarious precipice that is the border of life and death; Party Crashing seeks to embrace this borderline as the reality behind the social
Always listen to the message/s thoroughly and ensure that you do not delete them until you are adamant that the matter has been dealt with appropriately and effectively. Ensure that you have voicemail set up correctly so that if someone is unable to get through to you for example when you are not available you should have it set up so it tells the person something along the lines of ‘‘Hello…You have reached the voicemail service for Katie Fifield, if your matter is urgent …Please call the planning department on 0900 456 9000 or alternatively please leave an email at Katie.Fifield@basildon.gov.uk or a voice message and I will endeavour to get back to you as soon as possible’’. Always ensure that when the business is closed that the voicemail system is set up correctly, meaning you can follow their query when you are next available and when the businesses opening hours are. As an alternative, if you are at work, however out of office, you can always set your call to be forwarded on to an alternative colleague from your department who will be able to help on your behalf, of course you must always check this with them
Linda pokes her head out from behind the dark heavy curtain that separates the cab from the sleeper. With her sleepy eyes and a genital voice reminds me to turn on the mirror heaters, the windshield wipers and slow the truck to an appropriate speed. Linda quietly disappears behind the sleeper curtains just as calmly as she appeared. My heart racing from the excitement and beauty loudly beats in my chest as if I had just run a race. I watch into the distance as I slowly move down a long and winding road.
Dangers of Speeding When a person drives over the speed limit, it causes a greater chance for accidents than if they did not speed. Speeding is a major factor in a majority of all the wrecks that are fatal. Speeding above the speed limit is very dangerous. Speeding reduces the ability of a vehicle to stop in a time it would be able to if one had not been speeding.
How to Fight Distracted Driving by Lianna Thompson Safer roads is a goal that virtually everyone benefits from since we all share the road infrastructure. However this goal of safe roads can be difficult since there are many circumstances that can put drivers in dangerous situations. But perhaps the one that has gotten the most attention as of late is the issue of distracted driving. There have been countless attempts in order to help stop this issue, yet it still remains one of the leading causes of auto accidents.
“At around the point where the Mace Boulevard exit sign is posted”, Dr. Nolan-Pryor was looking to her left, when suddenly she heard “the sound of a crash” coming from a location ahead of Dr. Nolan-Pryor’s car and to her right.
He assesses the damage to his mother’s vehicle. The protagonist had earlier rebelled against morals and standards, but he now wants to return to normalcy. At the
When a person takes their eyes off of the road, anything can happen in just one second. Speeding makes things worse because humans have less time to react when the vehicle is going a high speed rate. The most common distractions include radio, cell phones, and passengers. There is a system that is called the Smith System, which has five steps about being safe on the road. The longer it takes to stop the vehicle is longer than it takes to speed up the vehicle.
"The Night Driver" is a short story by Italo Calvino (1967) that emphasize the struggles of human relations and technology in a postmodern era. The narrator, which I 've concluded is X, gets into an agreement with his girlfriend, and she tells him that she 'll go after Z, his rival. To save their relationship, X, drives through the rain at night to see her. As he is driving on the superhighway, he fancies the thought of her driving towards him in the other direction, along with other cars and even X on the superhighway. A character 's inner journey shows how much a character goes through changes –whether good or bad- in the story.
Suddenly, the DMV examiner stepped in the car and I was on my way. In the beginning, I constantly checked my speed and made sure I stopped when instructed. As I began to take a few turns, all I could hear was the pen scratching against the examiner 's clipboard and I couldn’t help but feel ancy. Soon after driving around the area, he told me to pull back into the area where we first started. I had a huge sigh of relief thinking that the test was over, but it only took me seconds to realize I was very wrong.