So I took my annual once-every-three years defensive driver's course today, and it seems wherever I take it, they always show this featured video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCJsEjxcuq4

And it's always the highlight of the class.

Ha! I haven't seen that in ages.

(It's a little depressing how things haven't changed much since...)

Did you have the Disney Channel in the 80's?

I think that was where i first saw this film..

No, this wasn't one of the featured videos, but since we're on the subject of driving footage, this nugget's worth a good share and a laugh.  At the risk of alienating myself from my own gender:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygtBxhFc24A

Hamster Dance FTW.  Oh, and be sure to stay for the ending.

My suspicion is that you are an aggressive driver.

Deep down, aren't we all, though?

It's for the insurance discount, for the most part - but they ARE excellent classes to take every now and again.  Keeps you reminded of the dos and do nots of the road. 

But you're right, as a New Yorker, I don't doubt there's some aggression brewing in my driving blood.  And as a New Yorker, may I just say:

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/4854/stickd.jpg

Ahh, it's the good one, thanks for that. There's a much longer one of these that details many driver types and isn't nearly as funny.

I don't drive personally, but I think of the Rocko's Modern Life episode when driving school comes up.

It's relative to the abilities of the car you drive, I have an old piece of shit that couldn't be "aggressive" even if I tried.

Hehe, I had thought those courses were for punishment only. I had no idea they could score one a discount. (A co-worker of mine had to take lots of them, because she got a DWI.)

Deep down we're nothing but fermions. It may be that we're still cooling off from the initial bang.

There's beauty to be found everywhere, even in the darkest and most unsuspecting of places...

The initial What??

Back in the day, we were all a little bit hot. So we're still letting off some of that steam. Of course, we weren't recognizable, as we were simply chaotic fermions in a quark-gluon plasma. We don't know much about the days before we were unbound fermions, but we do know our space was very limited. We realized that we had better make some friends and make them fast, since we were spreading out, like raisins in baking bread. When many of us came together, consciousness emerged, and we called our early days the Big Bang.

Nice writing.