The Number One Thing Americans Fear

Multiple Choice Question:

What is the thing that our society fears the most?

Possible Answers:

Terrorists or Violent Crime or The Boogie Man or Congress or Lawyers

I know for certain that most of you answered Congress. While I agree with you that that bunch is quite troubling to all of us, I think that the correct answer just might be Lawyers.

In truth our society is more and more being structured to defend itself against them.

To make my point, here are the details an incident that happened near where I live…

• A child’s backpack (with child attached) got caught in the closed doors of a school bus as said caught child (and backpack) were exiting the bus.
• The bus moved for 41 feet before the bus driver stopped the bus.
• The child and backpack were not injured.
• This incident happened on Friday afternoon and uncaught child was back in school on Monday morning.
• The School System’s Director of Transportation met with the student’s guardian before school on Monday and presented the child with a new Book Bag.

I would not have been surprised if Jack Nicholson had been there on Monday to tell the child that she was being given a Book Bag and not a Backpack because, “You can’t handle a Backpack!”.

All is well that ends well. No one was hurt. No one was fired. On one missed school. No Problem!

There was one problem. The School System was absolutely scared to death that there were going to be Law Suits, Lawyers all over the place and Claims of Loss of Sleep, Mental Anguish and Extreme Trauma.

The School System felt obligated to take the follow precautions to get ready for The Lawyers, in case they appeared…

• Emergency Responders were called out in force to the scene of the non-injury causing incident.
• Counselors contacted the parents of every of remaining student on the bus at the time of the non-injury causing incident.

I wonder what the Counselors told the parents of the remaining bus rider’s parents? … “It is my duty to inform you that your dear child was not involved in a non-injury causing incident that did involve another dear little child. If your child had been injured, he or she would have been injured but since he or she was not injured he or she received no injury. We are thankful that the involved child herself was also not injured but, if she had been injured, she would have been”.

I also wonder how many man hours were devoted to determining whether the bus had moved 40 or 41 or 42 feet?

Would I kid u?

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