Apr 20, 2020 -- 9:28AM, The Leopard wrote:
Yes....I was going for a walk 2 days back....residential area....turned a corner and there was an woman walking towards me, I was on the left (naturally) 0.3 metres from a hedge, path was 3 metres wide, she was startled and jumped a metre to her left, I said " I'm not contagious ! "She (now 5 metres past me) shouted, "You should keep your distance !"I couldn't move more left .....I think what triggered her was my foot went into a divet as I tuned the corner so I jinked a bit.....she must have thought I was about to try and acquaint her with our friends corona !
You should have told her, "I always walk this way, and a Leopard can't change its spots"
Apr 20, 2020 -- 9:28AM, The Leopard wrote:
Yes....I was going for a walk 2 days back....residential area....turned a corner and there was an woman walking towards me, I was on the left (naturally) 0.3 metres from a hedge, path was 3 metres wide, she was startled and jumped a metre to her left, I said " I'm not contagious ! "She (now 5 metres past me) shouted, "You should keep your distance !"I couldn't move more left .....I think what triggered her was my foot went into a divet as I tuned the corner so I jinked a bit.....she must have thought I was about to try and acquaint her with our friends corona !
>Irrational behaviour can become dangerous and collective very quickly
Reminds me of a twilight zone episode - "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlHSD6uo7Mk
Closing narration
The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices...to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill...and suspicion can destroy...and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own – for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.