Samantha+B's+Op-Ed+Article



Common Sense is No Longer Common

By Samantha B

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 Common sense is no longer common! As my dad likes to say “No brains no headache”. Now the ultimate act of stupidity that really gets on my nerves is people who jaywalk. Now we all know that in California pedestrians have the right of way. But when a huge ford excursion is coming down the road at forty-five miles an hour and you just stop off the curb YOU WILL LOSE!!!! My ford excursion ways about four and a half tons and how much does the average person weigh? About two hundred pounds? The other day I was out walking my dog and this lady was yelling at her kids to stay out of the street. When is that magical age when you can all of the sudden start just walking into the street. When you get older do you become indestructible? That is why at stop lights they have those lights at the other side, when the red hand is there DO NOT WALK!!! You want to walk off the curb, without a cross walk, without looking? Well go ahead you have the right of way, too bad you’ll be dead right. And then you look on almost anything you buy and you see all these warnings on the packaging; usually these warnings mean someone has tried to do what they are warning you not to do! I mean really when you have a bag of peanuts with a warning sign saying may contain nuts you know that some people are stupid!!!! Or when the sleep aide says “may cause drowsiness” WELL ISN’T THE POINT!!Or I was looking at a bandage box the other day and the warning sign said “do not place on eyeball” I mean really people DUH! Then you have proposition 65, in the state of California you must have a warning label stating “WARNING: This product contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm” if you sell a product containing one of the specified chemicals. So this product is only harmful ion California? I can go to Alaska and it won’t cause cancer?! Then there are the people that sue for everything! There was that one guy who put his trailer on cruise control and thought that it meant auto-pilot. I mean come on! When horns started honking and you notice that your motor home is swerving and not staying in the lane you should have got the hint!!! The other day someone called our dance studio my dance teacher answered “Mackinnon dance Academy this is Susie speaking” the response, “Do you teach dance classes there”. There is always that kid in dance class that stands right in front of you when you are practicing kick or they know you will travel and possibly run then over but yet they still stop and stand right in front of you. You know when you drive there are those big red signs at almost every corner? What do they say? STOP in big letters, so then why is there a kid hit almost every week at the corner by my house? BECAUSE NO ONE USES THERE HEAD!!! Teenagers are idiots sometimes. I know we are all teenagers and some of you might take offence to this but yes at some point in your teenage life you will do something idiotic. Now for my neighbors it was rolling down the big hill by my house in office chairs. One they all almost got ran over at least ten times. Two none of them new how to stop themselves so they flew into the curb and went flying (one kid even broke his arm). So yes it is true that common sense is no longer common; we live in a world full of idiots.