Conflict Journal

Today on the way to school with vince, justin, and ben I was driving from des moines to federal way. On the way up 216th Vince shouts out "Mcdonalds!" The problem was that it was already 8:15 and it would take us 15 minutes to get there. As I got up to Pac Highway i turned down the music and said, "I'll go to mcdonalds if someone buys me a egg mcmuffin." The person in the seat next to me swore at me and said forget that and instead of responding in anger I just kept my cool and drove the rest of the way to school, not giving the grump in the seat next to me more chances to release his anger on me.

Yesterday as I was driving- once again with vince, ben and justin- vince reached over to turn the heat down to halfway cold instead of in the middle between hot and cold and I reached over right after him and turned it back. He did the opposite once again and when I turned it back again he tried to role down his window but I was prepared and ready and held it up on my side so that he could not role it down. When this happened he decided to crack his door open while we were driving. When I saw this I decided to let up, I turned the heat to halfway cold and told him to shut the door. He obviously wanted it bad enough and I did not not want it bad enough, I think more or less I just wanted to win. Its the principle of having heat and not cold in the middle of winter, but realistically it does not make that big of a difference to have the cold on a little.