So. I am sitting in my new testament survey class last week. The teacher is leading us in a lovely
discussion about Calvinism and Arminianism. I was listening.. but I was sort of zoning out.
The teacher is using the projector, and the projector is sitting in the middle of the room on one of
those rolly metal card thingies. So I am staring at the side of the little rolly metal cart thingie, and on the side
of the little rolly metal cart thingie is a warning label. This I found to be very exciting, because
there were pictures/drawing type things. There were three pictures on the side.
The first drawing was of a man pushing a little rolly metal cart thingie from behind, and then a man
pulling the cart towards him while he is walking backwards. The second picture has a large red X through it
obviously showing that the first is the proper/safe way to move the cart, but the second is not. Then there
was another set of pictures showing which part of the cart to hold when pushing it, one with a big X through
it, showing that you should push it a certain way.
The last picture was the one that I found funny. It was a single picture instead of a pair, and it was a little
stick man, just like in the other ones, but in this one he was holding the hand of a very small stick person,
presumably a child. The picture has a large red X through it.
Now most would argue this means that you shouldn't allow small children to push the rolly metal cart
thingie around, but then why wouldn't they have shown a kid pushing the cart with an X throught it.
What if you were from a foriegn country and you for some reason saw this cart? What would you assume?
Don't hold hands? Don't let kids push the cart? or perhaps something else. The first thing that came to my mind
was a line from a Dave Barry book where he talks about dangerous paint removal products... Do not have
children after using this product. I do not know why I thought if this. but that was my day, and I thought
you should know.
Quote of the day:
I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately.
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.
To put to route all that was not life, and not when I came
to die, discover that I had not lived. ~ Thoreau
