When I was young I overheard someone say “you don”t have the sense God gave a goose.” Now as a child I didn’t have a clue as to what this meant. However, as I got older, and saw how a goose will walk into moving traffic without a care in the world, oblivious to its surroundings, that that saying started to make sense.

More and more everyday I see the evidence of a lack of common sense within the human population. People are so wrapped withing their immediate moment that they miss their immediate surroundings altogether.

It is true that many of the younger members of our race have a real lack of common sense. That though is almost forgivable as they are still young and will have to learn the ways of the world.

It is however, the displacement of common sense in the older members of our society that is very disconcerting.

When it happened I’m not really sure. How it happened I have no idea. Maybe I was mistaken the whole time, and people in general never had common sense.

Maybe I have taken it for granted that people paid attention to what was going on around them. That the concepts of not touching a flame, not rubbing your finger against the edge of the knife, not walking into the road without looking both ways first, was something that everyone understood.

Today that goose was walking up right in the guise of a forty something year old man in a blue north face jacket and dark blue jeans.

He stepped out from the store, and walked right into the parking lot, right in front of a white Ford Flex driven by an older gentleman, who I was surprised was able to stop his car in time not to hit the man.
The man didn’t even flinch as he continued walking to his car.

Now I guess I could even say that if he had been on his phone, maybe just maybe, that would have been understandable, but he didn’t even have a phone in his hand, he was just oblivious to his surroundings.

With less sense than God gave a goose..