Paul Harvey, Andy Rooney and good old fashioned common sense.

This afternoon, I was stumbling around the internet because I'm truly sick and tired of what is going on in the There World. I happened upon a news story on Yahoo, and below, in the corner, was a link to Andy Rooney's clips from 60 minutes. In this wonderful "6-Pack of Common Sense", he took a look at everything from the President's staff to how truly ugly power lines are. He has such a comical and dry wit that you have to laugh over the fact that things are just so plainly obvious, but none of us ever bother to think about it.

Growing up, I would get the rare treat of having my father take me to school. My father is not a tall man, he's only about 5'8, but he says he's shrinking now...I don't know about that, but my father will always be a giant to me. The one thing that will keep him a tall man in my mind were the happiest days of my childhood; those rare trips to school when we would get into his truck and he would turn on the radio and we'd listen to KBUC radio and Paul Harvey. Now Paul Harvey is that same brand of humor, it's dry and filled with common sense. I always found it a treat when Dad would turn on the radio, and you'd hear that familiar line, "And that's the rest of the story...". Dad and I would laugh all the way to school.

Well, that made me think about my life and how some of the things I see every day are really common sense things that people are tripping over. Common Sense is the rock in the road that they stumble on, yet they don't bother to look down to see exactly what they've tripped on or wonder how they came to be face down on the ground.

So, in Paul Harvey and Andy Rooney fashion, I'm going to try to pick on the common sense things that people trip on.

I'll start with one that I'm sure you'll agree that most people just can't quite seem to not avoid.

Drama.

I don't know exactly why people can't avoid this nasty bugger. Or maybe it's just this:

Someone up on a hill, who thinks they know better than everyone else, see the people below them traversing a road. Along with the people, they see an ant, that they think shouldn't be there, traversing the road with everyone else. So they decide it would be wonderful to kill the ant, because it would be a public service, that it is such an eyesore and a pest and most importantly, because that particular ant supposedly bit them. So they put a stick underneath the boulder they are standing next to and heave the huge rock on the ant below. While they might enjoy seeing the rock roll down the hill and get a thrill out of the anticipation of the death of the ant, they don't think of the wake of destruction it would leave during it's trip down to the road, bringing even more rocks and dirt with it, all raining down on the people that are politely minding their own business. No one knows that someone was just trying to kill the ant on the side of the road, it's just that the pesky people minding their own business got in the way. Tell that to the people squished when the boulder landed on top of them and the fact that the ant that started it all got missed altogether. What's worse is that the people who rolled the boulder down the hill in the first place get missed, they don't even get a finger shaken at them for starting the whole mess, and everyone else, who has no idea what's going on, just end up concentrating on screaming about the boulder in the middle of the road. So, would it not make sense to figure out why and how the boulder got there in the first place? I would think so...but then again, I'd just keep walking and go around the boulder...

But that's just me of course.

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