like a fire

I know that this is news to anyone reading this but people are crazy. To prove this statement, let me tell you about a trip to get gas today. I pull up at my local BP on Lake Underhill Rd. and start pumping my gas for 2.18 a gallon. OK, that is crazy right there and I could just stop with a nod to the fatc that I’m crazy, but it gets better. I am pumping away just thinking about my day, and suddenly I hear the sound of gas being sprayed outside a car. I look over the pump and there is what I assume is a grandfather and grandson drenched in gas. The grandfather is holding the nozzle in his hand outside the car with gas still dripping from it. Both are soaked. He immediately puts the nozzle back into the gas tank receptacle and starts pumping again as if nothing ever happened. Grandson has this I can’t believe this expression on his face. Then as I am wathcing this debacle, a woman in a white lexus drives off with the pump still in her car. Totally oblivious, she drives off, cracks the end of the nozzle off, dents her car and looses her gas cap, AND DOESN’T EVEN NOTICE! So a man who is very perceptive to these things almost runs her down to point out that she has not been paying attention to the reality going on around her. She then gets out and starts ranting and raving (not the techno kind of dancing) because he has almost hit her. All of this happened within 5 minutes.

I was so amazed at how people could be so oblivious to their surroundings, that I looked around my car 4 times before pulling out. I have concluded from this experience that people are crazy. True. True.