"I am not saying I agree with capital punishment for stupidity, all I am saying is lets take the warning labels off things and let nature take its course"
Saw that line in my search for quotes to write on the 'thought of the day' board in camp. Funny thing is that knowing how the people in camp are natural selection would take about 90% of them but only 5% would actually think they would be weeded out. Yep, that's right, almost time for me to head back to the land of no common sense. Got my ticket to fly in a few days. On the up side it has been deemed warm enough not to wear winter gear. Which means that I can actually fly in just a nice jacket and shoes without having to wear my -45'C full body snow suit in +5'C weather.
Another thing happened that made me think of that quote while walking the streets. I am amazed at how many people just walk against the light and jaywalk. I know I have done it a few times but that has only been on deserted side streets that you can see no cars coming for about 4 blocks away, and even then I feel guilty and nervous and quickly walk across the street. I often joked with a few friends from college that jaywalked that I must have been road kill in my past life cause I am always nervous walking across a street that is not controlled by lights or signs. I just shake my head at people that walk on the red handed 'no walk' sign at cross walks while cars sit there while they have the green waiting for these idiots to walk. One lady was a middle aged native woman that decided she had to cross the street she had been pacing up and down for about 5 minutes (I watched her as I waited for the bus) and then just walked out into traffic and tried to cross Stony Plain Road. It wasn't a quick walk either it was more a '3am stagger down the hallway, half asleep to the bathroom' kind of stroll. I just loved the way that cars slammed on their brakes to stop for this lady staggering but no horns were blown, no swears were yelled and no birds were flipped at her. Instead they all just waited patiently for her to stagger across before continuing on their way.
Again it happened yesterday while walking down to the library. Came to an intersection and we had the "don't walk" sign. Of course I am standing there waiting cause there is traffic. A late teens or early twenties Caucasian male walks from behind me and just starts to cross the street. No cars were on the street he was walking on until he got halfway across when a lady on her cell phone driving a big truck like vehicle drove up and then braked for him. Again, no honks from the car and the guy didn't even look startled and apologize for walking against the light. He just kept walking with his head low and the lady stopped her vehicle and kept talking on the phone while she sat there looking at her green light slowly getting ready to turn to yellow.
Just saying, natural selection might be a cure here for some of the worlds problems.
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There was a thing going around work that stupid people can't procreate so don't enforce safety so they'll die doing stupid things (like jay walking). I'll have to scan it and send it to Ee for you to read. It is funny.
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