It’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses
Thursday, May 8th, 2008 By Mike MaurerI’ve had a favorite pair of Wayfarers lying around for about 20 years, and a few weeks ago I dug them out and had prescription lenses put into them. Now I wear them everywhere, even when it’s raining as it is this morning. Since I can’t afford a Ferrari, this is as close as I’ll come to a mid-life crisis.
Driving at high speed through a school zone this morning, I saw a kindred spirit: a woman in tennis shoes, shorts, a yellow hooded rain slicker, mowing her lawn.
It was an electric mower to boot.
When we do these things and we slip and end up buying Tom Dempsey Air Nikes for the rest of our days, who’s responsible? The tennis shoe company for not protecting our toes? The electric cord company for not having an auto-retract so we would not be distracted with the power cord? The manufacturer of the lawn mower, which, like the manufacturer of guns, built a device that functioned as intentioned?
It’s a good thing we have courts to sort out questions such as that one. Someone has to do it.
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