In California and Los Angeles especially, there are all these intersections that say, “please keep clear.”

It doesn’t mean “keep clear when you’re driving,” it means “keep clear when you’re stopping at a light.”

Why? Because it gives people an opportunity to get into lanes.

It gives people an opportunity to make a left hand turn.

It gives people the opportunity to get their car into the flow of traffic.

Today I had to honk yet again at another Uber driver (you can always recognize the Uber and Lyft drivers because they have the big U or the big sign that says Lyft).

I honked and had to point to the big large words on the street, words that you couldn’t miss even if you had bad eyesight.

She looked at me like, huh? What’s going on. Why is he honking at me. I pointed down again and I mouthed, “please don’t block the intersection.”

She finally backed up and lets me in, and I think to myself, yet another person doing another job half-assed.

If you’re going to drive a car, an Uber car — or any other type of car — I strongly suggest the following…

If you’re doing it for a living, learn the rules of the road so you can actually do the job you’re supposed to do.

I have so many times I’ve got to honk at the Uber driver in front of my garage. There’s a garage. It’s not hard to see. It’s not the street, but yet I need to honk to let you know that that is not a good place to sit. Common sense would tell you that this looks like a very active, big building where there is a garage where cars come in and out.

But once again, it’s part of what I feel is wrong in today’s society and in every society.

People do jobs halfway.

They don’t do a job all the way, they do a job half the way.

Why?

It’s just the way we are.

We all want to get paid a lot of money.

We all don’t want to do the job the right way.

A friend of mine said it to me years ago when I was young. He looked at me and he says, “Anything you ever do in life, give it the best you can possibly give. Be the best that you can be at the job you’re doing.”

So why?

Because it gives you those traits, those habits that you are literally forming day by day, step by step, minute by minute that will allow you to do what.

That will literally allow you to start to get better at what you do, build those skills to literally go and be the best that you can do.

Yet, everybody wants to rush and do things halfway, and when you do that, you’re telling the person who hired you that you don’t give a shit.

You’re telling yourself that, well, you don’t expect to ever succeed, so you might as well try to find shortcuts.

And most importantly, you probably truly don’t believe in yourself to begin with.

It’s huge, in my book, to do things right. The more you do things right, the better it is for everybody that’s involved.

Do stuff right.

It’s a really good thing to do things right. It’s a good thing to build those habits so you’ll start to build your life, and you’ll start to build who you are.