Then there is a most dramatic change that overtakes everyone at the bazaar on St Lucia after a few gallons of an enticing alcoholic drink called "Hangman's Blood" has been passed around.
Preparing for a dinner party these days is far more complex, thanks to a vast and bewildering array of dietary needs that seem to have suddenly overtaken everyone I know.
"Trump right now is like a white version of Barack Obama," he added, comparing the surge in business of 2008 to the sudden appetite for Trump's Make America Great Again baseball caps, which he sells for $20. "He's come out of nowhere, he's got the huge crowds, he's overtaken everyone".
Bayern have adapted and overtaken Dortmund in the Bundesliga, and now they have overtaken everyone in Europe to win the Champions League.
Next, the genuine intrigue of Chelsea-Everton, the former on the cusp of overtaking Liverpool as everyone's second shouts for the title, the latter utterly revitalised now that they have Richarlison, the best shark in the world at football, playing up front.
If machines will eventually overtake us, as virtually everyone in the A.I. field believes, the real question is about values: how we instill them in machines, and how we then negotiate with those machines if and when their values are likely to differ greatly from our own.
Despite the promise of bountiful, cheap, and clean energy nuclear energy didn't overtake fossil fuels like everyone expected them to in the middle of the 20th century.
It is indeed frustrating when everyone is overtaking you in the middle lane, and I would agree that it is simple good manners to let someone in who might be stuck behind a lorry, but staying in the middle lane to overtake a never-ending convoy of freight traffic is preferable to - and safer than - weaving in and out constantly to avoid it.
In the end, Hurricane Isabel overtook Camden Yards, as just about everyone expected, except perhaps the Orioles and Major League Baseball.
