September 13, 2006
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I do say, it’s time for a thought!
I like to do good things and not do bad things. Thus, I drink my gallon of water a day, recycle, and wear my seatbelt. Simple enough to me. However, the other day in the car I forgot to put on my seatbelt, most likely because I was distracted by something shiny. Five seconds later, as I was pulling out of the driveway, I realized my seatbelt was unbuckled because of a little red light on my dashboard. Of course I caught note of it, but I then thought, “Is this little red light what people’s lives are depending on?” Assuming the seatbelt is the main faculty for preserving one’s life in case of an accident, why is the reminder to employ this lifesaving device more subtle than the lyrics to a scream song? This is our odd culture: where a noisy, seismic reaction occurs to our cell phones everytime a friend wants to reach us, and a dim, dime-sized light indicates we ought to consider protecting our lives while in an automobile. And it isn’t all that uncorrectable. Why not have a slime gun on the dashboard that sprays the driver if someone isn’t wearing a seatbelt? Eh? A slime stain to save a life? I believe I have weighed the values correctly, have I not?
Slime needs a use anyways.
College essays to write, so that’s all for the time being!
Blessed with friends is he who can claim he is sad, but not lonely.
A goodbye is sad to some, but doesn’t it make our next hello all the sweeter?
Comments (2)
oh you are welcome for the comments phil. very good one-liners there! oh and anti-bac is a dollar at target in pretty decent sized bottles (small enough to fit in a purse that you don’t have but big enough to last a while) lol you have to go to the dollar isle of like travel sized shampoos and stuff.
Hi! I’ve just come to say thanks again for participating and/or voting in my pervious writing contest. I have currently posted a new writing tip on the topics of punctuation and how to use strong verbs. I’ll be posting one more tip about dialog before my next contest, which will be related to climax. I plan to open entries by the end of the month, and you’re invited to participate! God bless.
~Inky