I committed the cardinal sin of driving yesterday:  I confused the gas and brake pedals.  Just the other day, I heard something on the radio that was talking about requiring old people to retake the drivers' test every few years because too many old people make this same mistake (and kill people in the process).  I was thinking, "Yeah!  Stupid old people!  They shouldn't be allowed to drive!"  And then I end up doing the same exact thing.  I'm not sure how it happened.  I was driving home from work at the end of the day, and I was kind of spacing out.  I was going around a bend and my brain said, "Engage thinking process.  Driving too fast.  Engage foot-on-pedal process.  Driving faster now.  Error."  It took me a surprisingly long time to figure out what the problem was.  After I pressed a pedal, I noticed that not only was I not going slower, but I was in fact going faster.  A few seconds passed, and then I realized it was because I was pressing the wrong pedal.  And this happened right as I was driving past the security guard on my way out.  He probably wasn't even looking at me, but if he was, he might've been a little scared by a crazy person accelerating towards him.  Oh well.  You can't win 'em all. #travel