Is it just me or are people generally more highly strung lately?
Maybe it's all that processed food and coffee we're shoveling into our bodies. Maybe it's something in the water, or the music we're listening to. I don't know.
I wish I did, because then I would have known how to handle the incident of road rage I witnessed yesterday.
Some huge crazy poster-boy for McDonalds Supersized Meals driving the regulation Hilux Bakkie issued to all steroid junkies tried to skip a clearly red robot, but was impeded by a skinny Ethiopian-looking refugee cyclist crossing the same road.
I sensed a fight a they both began a screaming match.
It was like watching two angry women fighting over the last pair of shoes on sale at Socrates.
So I did what any decent peace-loving citizen would o an whipped out my camera. Unfortunately it never escalated from a screaming match, which was a waste of time for at least 8 cars that had stopped to watch the show.
Remember when we would be kind and courteous to strangers for no other reason than it being the right thing to do? Remember when a kind word and a smile achieved more than anger and violence did? I recall such a time fondly. I want that time back, for myself an the generations to follow.
I think we should start by banning fast-food, processed foods, and coffee.
But not KFC HotWings. They can stay. Nobodies ever had KFC HotWings and then gone out to pick a fight. Nobody I've ever heard of.
I found myself wondering this very same thing this morning. Only, it was I that was the road rager not the ragee. But I digress,my theory is that people, in the aggregate of things, are becoming more stupid. Technology allows them to do less so they can have more time to be stupid. I don't wish to delve into the dynamics of this mechanism any more, let me leave you with this quote: “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.” - Einstein, A.
ReplyDeleteAnd Mochachos can stay too. I've never heard or seen anyone want to pick a fight after a good meal.
ReplyDeleteEveryone does seem more high strung and mental. It's like there's a race that I don't know about.