“SEND me an angel/Send me an angel/Right now, right now.”
Wish ko lang there’s always an angel who will help me avoid food that’s bad for me.
The movie “Good Fortune” does have angels who protect people from harm. Angel Gabriel (Keanu Reeves), for one, keeps people from the dangers of texting and driving.
Real Life’s “Send Me An Angel” is one of the songs in the movie’s soundtrack.
Imagine the number of accidents that could have been avoided if drivers don’t text and drive at the same time. But with Gabriel there with them, they’re able to ward off accidents up to that last second, right before the front bumper hits the next car’s rear bumper. That’s the most simple accident waiting to happen, by the way. Because there’s the worst kind: taking too long to look up while texting, until a tanker truck has skidded almost to its side to avoid hitting you.
‘Don’t drink and drive’ used to be the advice. But when the mobile phone became everyone’s favorite gadget, ‘Don’t text and drive’ has become the more popular advice, with ‘Don’t drink, text, and drive’ perhaps the best advice that should always be considered seriously even before buying a car. Anyone who can’t follow that last advice is better off hiring a driver who can always be relied on as the sober designated driver.
Men are especially proud of their belief that they can drink and then drive. They don’t realize their car is already swerving around like a snake because, hmmm, they’re too drunk to notice.
Drunk motorcycle drivers are most vulnerable since they’re exposed to the elements, with only their helmet — that is, if they’re wearing one — as protection.
Multitasking, like texting and driving, is seldom a productive endeavor. For example, leaving the kitchen while cooking may lead to multi-salting. You already added salt to, say, the soup before leaving the kitchen, and upon returning there, you’re adding salt to the soup again after forgetting about the first one. And this is for a recipe that says, “Add salt to taste.” Operative word: taste. So, once you’re back in the kitchen, better taste the soup first.
Cooking is one task that busy people can do with other household chores and even with work. Since there are dishes that do take a long time to cook, multitasking can be the norm in accomplishing the day’s to-do list. But focusing on the current task is a must otherwise the food won’t be yummy, other household chores are done haphazardly, and the work’s results will be found wanting.
Writing columns while eating snacks used to be my favorite multitasking activity. But when I started adopting the low-carb diet and TMAD — two meals a day — in February 2022, I stopped eating snacks, so, no more writing while snacking.
Snacking while watching TV was another hard habit to break. And the snacks: cucumber-mayo-wheat-bread sandwiches, Chippy, and Coke Zero. Or peanuts and Coke Zero. Or any other food combination — hotdogs, fried egg, rice — and Coke Zero. And that could be at 12 midnight. To stay true to its title: midnight snacks. But that also stopped since at first I stopped watching TV, and later I stopped snacking.
Snacking while watching a movie had remained a favorite, though, but not anymore after I noticed that processed meat is bad for me, therefore, no more hotdog bites at the cinema.
