Wrapping up another trip to Denver for the Colorado Scottish Games....Getting our powdered egg and funky waffles at the Hyatt Place. We are sitting close to the bar....as people are coming through to get to the breakfast area and someone knocks into a chair that was left slightly into the pathway.
They look at the chair and keep walking. The chair is not slightly further in the way.
Another person is walking toward breakfast and...bam...hits their elbow. Looks at the chair....and walks on.
And a third.
Yes....a third person....same same.....
Seems so odd to me. I suddenly think...seems so american to me. Like...this thing hurt me because I slammed into it....but fuck anyone behind me, they can slam the hell into it too.
I know, I know, probably not exclusively and american way of seeing things...but this is the water I swim in so that's where I am going with it. God forbid we make the world better or an experience better for the people coming up behind us.
"If I had to blah blah blah....they can do it too."
Yawn.
Listen....for an example...I had student loans, I had a huge parent loan, I paid them both off. Guess what?
I'm all for forgiveness of student loans cause that shit is predatory.
High property taxes to fund schools...do it. I'm happy to pay for that shit. Makes us all better when we have an educated population.
So, I pushed that chair in before we left the breakfast area.
Simple...
I wanted my kids to have a better world than I had...Sadly...yeah...too many chairs left in the pathway.
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