We are living in a presumptuous, "can't wait" society. The 2006 automobile models hit the market in 2006. That copy of your favorite magazine that arrived in July was the August issue. Here are just three more quick examples of what I mean:

1) I'm still receiving mail addressed to someone who never spent a single day or night in my house. Why? Because, before I bought my current house, a young lady had signed a contract to buy it. Not wanting to wait until her loan application was approved, she went ahead and had her address changed in advance. Well, as luck would have it, she failed to quality for the loan and could not buy the house.

2) People seem to start focusing on Christmas earlier and earlier every year. When I was growing up, no one turned their attention to Christmas until after Thanksgiving. Now, we get bombarded with Christmas as soon as Halloween is over! This makes Christmas Eve very anticlimactic and, by then, it seems like the holiday season has long been over.

3) On Election Day 2004, the early exit polls indicated that John Kerry would be elected. Then that night, even before the first actual returns started coming in, Ted Kennedy and several other Kerry supporters started acting as if Kerry had already been elected. Now, I didn't have a dog in that fight since I didn't vote for Dumb or Dumber (I voted for the Libertarian candidate), but I started rooting for Bush after that point. Kerry supporters can now tell everyone about the hazards of presumptuousness, as they had to eat a lot of crow later that night.

Terry Mitchell

Terry Mitchell is a software engineer, freelance writer, blogger, and amateur political analyst from Hopewell, VA. He's been in the software development/engineering line of work for over 24 years.

He blogs and writes about various subjects such as current events, politics, cultural and social issues, health and well-being, personal finance, religion, technology, media issues, law, government, sports, humor, and trivia.

Through the BlogBurst network, his blog entries are often carried on the Website of the Houston Chronicle, one of the top newspapers in America. In addition, his columns and essays regularly appear on American Chronicle's network of 21 online magazines. They have also appeared online on American Daily, Media Monitors International, Opinion Editorials, The Washington Dispatch, Arrivenet, and hundreds of additional websites.

Terry never misses an opportunity to assail political correctness and take pot shots at the conventional foolishness. He's not a bandwagon jumper - he writes stuff that others should be writing, but are not. He thinks of himself as a kind of modern American philosopher. His blog offers commentary from a unique point of view that is not often found in mainstream media.

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