OMG IAD! (Oh My God I'm A Dumbass!)
A woman in Pennsylvania is walking through a mall texting on her cell while walking. In the mall is a 40 by 40 foot fountain. Around the fountain is a wall, probably 18 to 24 inches high. Oblivious to everything in the world except her cell phone, she walks into the wall and falls into the fountain. She gets up, apparently soaked but uninjured, and walks away. Two days later she is on the Today show with her lawyer to announce, you guessed it, that she is suing the mall. When asked why she is suing, her lawyer responded that they wanted to hold all those responsible accountable.
Are you shittin' me counselor? Look to your right. See the dumbass sitting next to you? The one with the soggy cell phone? There sits "all those responsible".
To take this beyond ludicrous, the woman works in the mall! She is there every day. She knows there's a fountain in the middle of it.
Now I'm not saying she's a dumbass for walking into the fountain; that could happen to anyone. I remember an incident many years ago, I was walking and reading a newspaper and didn't see one of those saw horses with the day glo orange and white stripes and the flashing yellow light marking a spot where some digging was going on. I walked right into it and went ass over tea kettle onto the ground. What did I do? Sue the construction company? Sue the saw horse manufacturing company? Sue USA Today? No, I rolled around on the ground a bit holding my shins and laughing my ass off at my own stupidity.
Have we lost the ability to laugh at ourselves or have we been conditioned to believe that every thing bad that happens to us is someone else's fault?
Are you shittin' me counselor? Look to your right. See the dumbass sitting next to you? The one with the soggy cell phone? There sits "all those responsible".
To take this beyond ludicrous, the woman works in the mall! She is there every day. She knows there's a fountain in the middle of it.
Now I'm not saying she's a dumbass for walking into the fountain; that could happen to anyone. I remember an incident many years ago, I was walking and reading a newspaper and didn't see one of those saw horses with the day glo orange and white stripes and the flashing yellow light marking a spot where some digging was going on. I walked right into it and went ass over tea kettle onto the ground. What did I do? Sue the construction company? Sue the saw horse manufacturing company? Sue USA Today? No, I rolled around on the ground a bit holding my shins and laughing my ass off at my own stupidity.
Have we lost the ability to laugh at ourselves or have we been conditioned to believe that every thing bad that happens to us is someone else's fault?
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