Thursday, May 10, 2007
10:11 AM
The Human Brain...At It's BEST
It never ceases to amaze me how people can act or behave in a public situation. Carlos and I were at the movie theatre watching ads scroll across the big screen when all of a sudden an announcement cuts in with "There has been an emergency detected somewhere in the building, please use your nearest exit." Then the emergency lights started flashing as well.
Not smelling smoke, but trusting the announcement, Carlos and I proceed to the nearest exit and expect to be outside the building for a while.
As we get to the lobby, we notice a huge group of fellow movie-goers are huddled near the Customer Service desk inquiring as to whether or not this was a "real" emergency....
Okay peeps....what the hell is that about?
If someone tells me to leave the building, I'm NOT gonna stand around all non-chalantly at the Cust Serv desk to make sure it's REAL. My ass is gonna be at a SAFE distance outside until they tell me otherwise.
The good news is that, it was a false alarm. The bad news is, if this had been an actual emergency, I wonder how many of those people would be crispy fried right now....
Now, I'm not talkin about running out of the doors screaming and hollering like a mad-woman. I just mean, quietly and calming proceed to the nearest exit WITHOUT a detour to "chat" with the employees.
Another head-scratching episode happened a few days ago when Carlos and I went to Wal-Mart for some items. One of them, a reading light so that I can read my book in the middle of the night without disturbing him. We start off in the obvious section of Wal Mart....books. When nothing was found there, we extended our search to the sorta obvious section, Office Supplies. When that failed I decided to give the flashlight section in Sporting Goods a quick look-see.
It didn't really surprise me to find that a reading light would not be nestled among hunting flashlights, cap lights, and mini-pen lights next to the exercise equipment.
At this point we were out of ideas...
So while Carlos went somewhere else, I had a peek in Electronics....not there either.
As I made my way out of Electronics, I started walking through the clocks to kill some time.....no pun intended...or maybe it was. I was bedazzled by all the cool looking wall clocks they have out these days. I mean, there was one that was made out of a mini-pleather sofa cushion!!! How cute is that????
Then I notice from the corner of my eye, directly across from the clocks, hanging on the corner of an empty display shelf....READING LIGHTS!
I mean, how in the hell do these people figure reading lights should be grouped with CLOCKS and not BOOKS????
Did I totally sleep through the "How to be difficult and illogical" class in school?
All I gotta say is, thank the Reading Light Gods that I happened to take notice of a few cutesy wall clocks or that light woulda NEVER been found.
As a smart-assed side note: The reading light looks quite nerdy hanging around my neck when I read at night, but I tell ya, that thing works like a charm!
Said By Nicole
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