Carma

Wow, we've done a terrible job keeping up with this NotBlog (tm). Oh well. Here's a not-so-interesting story if you're bored.

Yesterday, while walking home from work, I passed a parked car that had its lights on. There were two men standing next to the car, which also had a slight opening in its sunroof. One of the men had a long stick of bamboo, and was trying to turn the lights off with the bamboo stick, using the opening in the sunroof for access. Needless to say, it's quite difficult to rotate the headlight control using a bamboo stick.

I was confused. The keys were locked in the ignition of the car, and it seemed to me that the easiest thing to do would be to unlock the car door with the bamboo stick, and then turn off the headlights using those amazing "opposable thumbs."

I asked the man if this was actually his car, because I couldn't understand why he didn't seem concerned about getting his keys out. I got a smart-ass response. At this point, I considered leaving him there (he had been trying this for a few minutes, apparently), and letting him be screwed. But I decided to be nice, took the bamboo stick, and unlocked the car door in approximately two seconds. (I was lucky that the locks were the type that were easy to unlock just by pushing them up from the inside of the car.)

The two men looked at me in amazement. (I should point out that unlocking the car was *not* difficult, and any of you, my loyal readers, could have done exactly the same thing.)

As I walked away, one of them called out to me, "Hey, are you an engineer?"

"Yes sir!" I replied.