Most of us are guilty of saying things without thinking about what they really mean or the context in which they are said. When we do stop to think about what we are saying we must admit that what we say often doesn't make much sense. This is especially true for things that are sometimes universally accepted.
There is a busy railroad crossing near where I live that has a sign posted for the traffic attempting to cross the tracks. That sign says, "Yield". Really? You have to post a sign to tell me, the driver of a highly crushable 2000 pound car, to yield to a 700,000 pound locomotive? Really? How stupid do you think I am? (Please don't answer that. It was a rhetorical question.) Now I realize that we are catering to the lowest common denominator here – the least intelligent person driving a car. But if one can't figure out that one should yield the right-of-way to something that is 350 times larger than your car, should you have been issued a license in the first place? Really.
I love the warning on the cup of coffee I get at McDonald's. "Contents are hot". Really? And when they say hot, they mean hot. McDonald's coffee has to have been brewed at around a zillion degrees. My step ladder has a warning that I should not stand on the very top of the ladder. Really? I am not that comfortable standing on the second step up. The top of the ladder is out of the question. Or the drive thru restaurant that alerts drivers that brail menus are available. Really? I have reason to believe there are blind drivers out there but isn't offering brail menus in the drive thru a bit over the top?
Have you visited the organic foods section of the supermarket? My question is, "Where do they keep the inorganic food?" I thought all food was organic. The dictionary defines organic as: "pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals." Sounds like food to me. If the organic food is that stuff over there that the store is charging more for because it has the label "organic," then what is the other stuff, the inorganic stuff called food, made of? It must be plastic food because inorganic is defined as: "not having the structure or organization characteristic of living bodies." Maybe we have organic food and Styrofoam food or maybe it is zombie food.
I love us humans. We are so goofy and don't have a clue.
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Talk about the lowest common denominator. Every hair dryer has a warning label that says, "Don't use hair dryer in the shower." Why is it there? Because someone has tried it.
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