WORZALA'S WEDNESDAY WORD 2-7-07
Today's Wednesday Word is "fine" as in "If you do not display fine common sense, you may face a fine." That's according to this article off of Yahoo News!
According to the article, New York State Senator Carl Kruger wants to introduce legislation this week that will make it a finable offense to use "gadgets such as Blackberry devices and video games while crossing the street." This is after three separate instances in the last 6 months of people being distracted by their electronic devices and being killed when they step out into traffic and are struck by a vehicle.
Now, I know not everyone had the same upbringing I did, but when I was a child I was taught that you always, ALWAYS, ALWAYS look both ways when you cross the street. It didn't matter if your baseball was rolling down the road, or if you were just going to go get the mail, or if you were running late for school. If you were going to cross the street you looked both ways, and then you looked again just to be on the safe side. This has become so ingrained in my mind, that I not only continue to look both ways before crossing the street, I look both ways when crossing one-way streets just, you know, in case some idiot can't read a "Do Not Enter" sign.
That was in Wisconsin. If we saw 20 cars driving down our street in a week, someone must have been having a party. This is New York City, New York County, New York state. The town invented gridlock and the crazed, curb jumping cabbie. What idiot is thinking "well, I should look before I step out fully into the street, but Mario isn't going to stomp these goombas on his own"?? Apparently three of them! And that's just the one's that have been killed. Think of the untold numbers who have been clipped by cars or nearly hit by a speeding bus.
What really makes me laugh is that this legislation is being presented in New York. New "You Lookin' At Me?" York. The city where you know you're lucky if a bum doesn't urinate on you after some transient steals your wallet while another guy stabs you in the liver with a sharpened spoon, is now playing Mother Hen, making sure you put away your noisey doo-dads before stepping into the crosswalk. What's next? Fines for not tying your shoes? Or for not washing that smudge off your face? Is New York going to spend all Thanksgiving dinner wondering out loud why you didn't settle down with that nice girl from the laundromat? What was her name again? Betsy? Becky? Bethany! What ever happened to her? Well you must have some idea, young man.
Look. All video game systems come with a pause button. Books can be marked. Ipods can be turned down. And anyone that can have a conversation on a phone should be capable of saying "Hold on a sec" to buy themselves the trio of milliseconds needed to assess the traffic conditions. No matter what sort of Star power your video game character might have, or how banging the latest Fergie beats are, or how deep in conversation you are about "like, did you see Jenny's skirt?", you do not have a personal force field device. If a car hits you, you will get hurt. If a bus hits you, you will get hurt worse. So look both ways when you cross the street, it'll make Momma New York happy. If you can't be bothered to do this? Then the government shouldn't have to step in when Darwinism decides to snuff you out.
Oh, and would it kill you to call once and a while? You remember Brian Braddick? He calls New Hampshire every Monday night, like clockwork.
According to the article, New York State Senator Carl Kruger wants to introduce legislation this week that will make it a finable offense to use "gadgets such as Blackberry devices and video games while crossing the street." This is after three separate instances in the last 6 months of people being distracted by their electronic devices and being killed when they step out into traffic and are struck by a vehicle.
Now, I know not everyone had the same upbringing I did, but when I was a child I was taught that you always, ALWAYS, ALWAYS look both ways when you cross the street. It didn't matter if your baseball was rolling down the road, or if you were just going to go get the mail, or if you were running late for school. If you were going to cross the street you looked both ways, and then you looked again just to be on the safe side. This has become so ingrained in my mind, that I not only continue to look both ways before crossing the street, I look both ways when crossing one-way streets just, you know, in case some idiot can't read a "Do Not Enter" sign.
That was in Wisconsin. If we saw 20 cars driving down our street in a week, someone must have been having a party. This is New York City, New York County, New York state. The town invented gridlock and the crazed, curb jumping cabbie. What idiot is thinking "well, I should look before I step out fully into the street, but Mario isn't going to stomp these goombas on his own"?? Apparently three of them! And that's just the one's that have been killed. Think of the untold numbers who have been clipped by cars or nearly hit by a speeding bus.
What really makes me laugh is that this legislation is being presented in New York. New "You Lookin' At Me?" York. The city where you know you're lucky if a bum doesn't urinate on you after some transient steals your wallet while another guy stabs you in the liver with a sharpened spoon, is now playing Mother Hen, making sure you put away your noisey doo-dads before stepping into the crosswalk. What's next? Fines for not tying your shoes? Or for not washing that smudge off your face? Is New York going to spend all Thanksgiving dinner wondering out loud why you didn't settle down with that nice girl from the laundromat? What was her name again? Betsy? Becky? Bethany! What ever happened to her? Well you must have some idea, young man.
Look. All video game systems come with a pause button. Books can be marked. Ipods can be turned down. And anyone that can have a conversation on a phone should be capable of saying "Hold on a sec" to buy themselves the trio of milliseconds needed to assess the traffic conditions. No matter what sort of Star power your video game character might have, or how banging the latest Fergie beats are, or how deep in conversation you are about "like, did you see Jenny's skirt?", you do not have a personal force field device. If a car hits you, you will get hurt. If a bus hits you, you will get hurt worse. So look both ways when you cross the street, it'll make Momma New York happy. If you can't be bothered to do this? Then the government shouldn't have to step in when Darwinism decides to snuff you out.
Oh, and would it kill you to call once and a while? You remember Brian Braddick? He calls New Hampshire every Monday night, like clockwork.
Labels: Worzala's Wednesday Word
posted by Matt Worzala at
2:53 PM
1 Comments:
This man has surely lost his mind, it’s time for him to retire on a BIG FAT pension.
absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
retire senile senators
.
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Anonymous, at 7:28 PM
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