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A Blast From the Past – VII

As part of my new Saturday program, this is what I wrote this back on 10/9/20. Enjoy!

They Did It Again!   

As we go along with this pandemic, I am consistently amazed by some of the arbitrary decisions and diktats that are beIng decided by “those who know best.”

Almost every time those who know best come up with something, I reflect to myself, “certainly they cannot top this one!” However, it typically doesn’t take long before I am again saying, “They did it again!”

Finally last week those that know best decided to open the neighborhood playgrounds, so that the children could for the first time in six months use those playgrounds that are being paid for by our tax dollars. When I told my four year old granddaughter that the playground was opened, she was very excited. 

“I can hardly wait to go on the swings,” she said.

So later that morning we went to the neighborhood playground, and . . . like a lead ballon, crash! . . . her expectation of swinging was instead, “disappointment personified.” Yes, the playground was open. The slides were open. The climbing structures were open. The entire playground was opened . . . except there were no swings! “They did it again!”

I assumed that those who know best must have decided that the swings were just “too risky.” I do not understand this logic. 

I said to myself, “certainly they cannot top this one.” 

However, it took only about a day for me to again say, “They did it again!” The latest involves “proper behavior when going out to eat.” . . . Those who know best now say, “when out to eat, you should put your mask on between bites, and of course between sips of whatever you are drinking” Can any rational person actually expect that any non-Karen will do this ?

“Certainly they cannot top this one!”

The present Vegas line “that those who know best will do it again, probably within the week!”  . . . even money!

11/19/22

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