The state of the world....

remember when you memorized everyone's phone number? Cell phones contribute to the de-braining of society by taking away the need to remember phone numbers.

I was driving back to work after taking the baby to the sitter on my lunch hour. I approached a left turn lane and got in line behind a few vehicles. We had the green, the cars ahead were just waiting for their opening to turn. Finally just one pickup truck in front of me, but the green light turned to yellow. The pickup started to pull out... then the guy stuck out an arm and waved at this little old lady on the corner for her to go ahead and cross the street.
Now, this little old lady may have been a transient... more likely just very very poor. She looked rough around the edges and had no teeth. She, trusting the pickup guy, stepped into the intersection to cross. Pickup gunned the engine and turned wide around her just as the light turned red. She, surprised by the pickup and then realizing that the other traffic now had a green light, realized that this jerk had set her up to get run over! She backtracked to the sidewalk, gaping after the pickup jerk. And I sat there at the red light wondering just what kind of gene pool we're going to have if creeps like that multiply.