Look both ways before crossing the street.
That is what we were taught back in the olden days.
Our parents told us that, our teachers told us that, and we did it.
We learned to look both ways and make sure no cars were coming, and then quickly cross the street while it was safe.
AND WE DIDN'T GET FRICKING RAN OVER!!!!!!
Somehow that has all changed.
People cross the street and assume it's safe, they assume cars will stop for them, often they don't even bother to look up from their "happy" facebook or whatever.
They stand in the street and have a conversation, and just figure that cars will go around them.
The casually walk across the street, in no particular hurry, the cars can wait, the cars can stop, no sense looking up or rushing or anything.
The slowest seem to be English as a second language folks. In your face car owners!
So we turn on the news and hear about pedestrians getting run over crossing the street at 2 am, duh.
We hear about darwin award winners getting hit by freaking trains if you can believe it.
Just how stoopid have people gotten to get to this level? How do you get hit by a train?
I've never been his by a car. I will never get hit by a car.
Why? Because I am smarter than a car and I do not put myself in positions where cars can hit me. I learned that in first grade.
Maybe I'm looking at it all wrong. Maybe it's actually a good thing that the idiots get killed off, culling the herd so to speak.
Silver lining, yeah that's the ticket.
