The "Grown Up" Holiday

I recently got back from my first college thanksgiving break.

*sound of a record stopping very quickly*

Wait a second. Did I really just call Thanksgiving a "break." Ok, it was a break from school in the same way that breakfast is breaking a fast in which you couldn't eat anyway. Firstly, three days has because a much shorter time since elementary school. Waking up as 12:00 noon makes as these days much shorter. Sunset at 5 continues to make the days even shorter still. That was my fault. I know that about 80% of the population sleep in on holidays, but I also know how bad i feel when I wake up at noon. If i had had the self disipline to go to sleep earlier and wake up sooner I would have had a much more enjoyable break. The second issue with my break was my friends. They wanted to hang out the entire break. I like to hang out, but I'm the one that drives. To me driving is an exhausting and mentally challenging stressor that just tires me out and make me lethargic. I had fun, but the driving wore me out. The third thing was a death in the family. It was actually my best friend's grandfather, but that's close enough to matter. That and family togetherness activities made my break less relaxing than a massage with a jagged rock.

This is the "grown up" holiday. It is a holiday in which you're normal responcibilities and stresses are replaced with new and sometimes worse ones. I don't have to right a paper, but i do have to be social with family member that I have little in common with. I might not have to attend class, but if I don' attend to the turkey, Thanks giving is ruined.

...I can't wait til' Christmas

My proposal is that all resturants regardless of classification of food choices be disallowed to operate drive-thru windows. There would also be a law against eating while driving. Eating in a car can result in divided attention while driving and ultimately and accident. Eating while drivig takes the focus away from the food that your eating and hurts the bodies ability to sense when it is full. In addition to safety and satiation, closing down drive-thrus would put an end to alot of late night unhealthy eating which packs on extra calories that the body will not gett a chance to burn.

Having a divided attention is a real hazard. If a person's full attention is not directed toward and action such as driving that persons ability will go down. Talking on a cell phone is targeted alot as a major offense while driving and text messageing has to be worse because you have to take you're eyes off the road. Eating a hamburger cannot be much different. Anything with a spoon would be more difficult, and if a person has multiple food items it would be even more distracting because of picking up and sitting down different items while driving.

As for closing down late night options. (I already have information about the issues with late night eating in my Taco Bell analysis). The stores would probably combat this ultimatum and stay open normally, but as that would still prevent alot of late night eating/driving.

Also guidelines for eating to be full (satiated) suggest sitting down while eating and eating slowly and consentrating out your food. If youre are eating all of your food on the run while driving you probably arn't really paying attention and as a result not feeling as full as you could. Ultimately this can lead to over eating.


Questions:

This seems hard to connect to my original paper. Would if be a good idea to make my proposal exclusivly what Taco Bell needs to do to be a healthier more socially responcible restaurant?

Should my idea about closing drive-thrus include making car eating illegal or is that overkill?