A story in the true and typical attitude that pervades our society, Alexa, a teen girl in New York who fell into an open manhole while busy texting may plan on suing ... "Because of their careless mistake I got hurt."
Granted the manhole cover should have been closed but come on, at what point did her stupidity have something to do with it?
And on that subject - illiterate wonders of this nation beware that the national texting champion has an accurate texting speed of 3.5 characters per second which approximates to 35 words per minute. Of course text speak is gobbledygook anyway, so perhaps focusing on finishing high school instead of being the national text champion might be a better plan - just saying!
Back to Alexa - duh....
Thanks to Sol for the head up. Soon I plan a posting on how no one is at fault for anything anymore. It is always someone else's fault no matter how stupid we are. For example, an Idaho man who, stopped by the cops decides to consume the meth he had and dies. His family blames the police. Hmmmmm.....Can we put these idiot's photographs up somewhere?
MisterWriter
4 comments:
They are stupid and it is their fault!!
this is a MAJOR problem with America today - way too many people raise their kids to believe that nothing is their fault. It is not PC to hold anyone responsible for their actions/inactions/verbiage/etc., it's all about point the finger at the other guy. Had any of us done something of this nature back in the '50's, when we got home we would have goten our butt kicked for being so incredibly stupid and then we would have been made to apologize to the sewer company for causing them extra work to haul our worthless ass out of the crap. I was the bad guy in that while my kids were growing up I held them responsible for their actions. Once they realized my attitude was not going to change their attitude did change, they started paying attention to what they were doing and now they too believe we are all to be held responsible for our own actions. Enough placating, it's way past time we held not just ourselves but everyone responsible for their own actions.
On a positive note... I teach, "you are responsible for your action."
I'm so with you on this one! I almost hit a woman in WC this week who walked into the street (to cross, not in a crosswalk) while talking on her cell phone. Didn't even bother to look up to check for approaching cars. Then proceeded to glare at me when I almost hit her.
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