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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 20464" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>So how do they plan on enforcing this hand-washing law? Cameras in the bathrooms? Um ... no ... wait! Can't do that! The "hand-washing police" sounds like a wonderful idea to me! And it would make the unemployment rates go down! Of course, the juvenile court systems would soon be overwhelmed! I can just see whole courtrooms full of grubby-fingered first graders and their embarassed parents! In the states with "Three Strike" laws, some of those parents may never see their children again!</p><p></p><p> :salute:</p><p></p><p>This is getting absolutely ridiculous! Why do "they" have to take what is basically a good concept and run it to absurd lengths! Is this "political correctness" run amoke? Have people just gone nuts?!?! They are talking about passing the "fast food" laws here too. It's only a matter of time before "they" are peeking in your kitchen window to see what you're cooking for dinner! "I'm sorry, lady, but we'll have to confiscate those french fries!" Darn it, if I want to sit on my couch eating Crisco out of the can with a spoon, I'll do it! Fortunately, I don't, but if I did .....! :cry:</p><p></p><p>The anti-smoking regulations have gotten just silly too! This goes waaaaay beyond what is needed to keep non-smokers away from second-hand smoke! Where I work is on 52 acres out in the middle of nowhere - you can see miles and miles of ... nothing! But we have to leave the property, not just go outside, we have to drive a mile down the road! It would take one heck of a lot of cigarettes to "pollute" those thousands and thousands of acres of "nothing"! :cool:</p><p></p><p>Now the latest one is to take the laws against using cell phones while driving (unenforcable too!) and extend them to include almost everything else that could possibly be considered "distracting" while driving! I've seen my share of zoned-out spacey people mindlessly jabbering on their cell phones in traffic, and I just want to slap them! But there's talk now of including things like eating, drinking, or smoking while you're driving! My little thermal coffee mug will become "evidence" if I'm arrested for driving while drinking ... Folgers! And I've smoked in my car while driving for 43 YEARS with never an accident or even a ticket - not even one! I think I have mastered the "difficult" task of smoking while driving by now. I can walk and chew gum at the same time too! :wink:</p><p></p><p>I drive close to 400 miles a week and I see people all the time with unrestrained children bouncing around in their cars, dogs in their laps, people blabbering on cell phones, doing their hair, putting on makeup or reading maps! And nobody ever seems to see it or even care. But it will be just my luck ... someday I will probably be busted for possession of Folgers Breakfast Blend and my Kool 100s! :blush:</p><p></p><p>OK, got that off my chest ... I feel BETTER now! :grin:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 20464, member: 1883"] So how do they plan on enforcing this hand-washing law? Cameras in the bathrooms? Um ... no ... wait! Can't do that! The "hand-washing police" sounds like a wonderful idea to me! And it would make the unemployment rates go down! Of course, the juvenile court systems would soon be overwhelmed! I can just see whole courtrooms full of grubby-fingered first graders and their embarassed parents! In the states with "Three Strike" laws, some of those parents may never see their children again! [img]:salute:[/img] This is getting absolutely ridiculous! Why do "they" have to take what is basically a good concept and run it to absurd lengths! Is this "political correctness" run amoke? Have people just gone nuts?!?! They are talking about passing the "fast food" laws here too. It's only a matter of time before "they" are peeking in your kitchen window to see what you're cooking for dinner! "I'm sorry, lady, but we'll have to confiscate those french fries!" Darn it, if I want to sit on my couch eating Crisco out of the can with a spoon, I'll do it! Fortunately, I don't, but if I did .....! [img]:cry:[/img] The anti-smoking regulations have gotten just silly too! This goes waaaaay beyond what is needed to keep non-smokers away from second-hand smoke! Where I work is on 52 acres out in the middle of nowhere - you can see miles and miles of ... nothing! But we have to leave the property, not just go outside, we have to drive a mile down the road! It would take one heck of a lot of cigarettes to "pollute" those thousands and thousands of acres of "nothing"! [img]:cool:[/img] Now the latest one is to take the laws against using cell phones while driving (unenforcable too!) and extend them to include almost everything else that could possibly be considered "distracting" while driving! I've seen my share of zoned-out spacey people mindlessly jabbering on their cell phones in traffic, and I just want to slap them! But there's talk now of including things like eating, drinking, or smoking while you're driving! My little thermal coffee mug will become "evidence" if I'm arrested for driving while drinking ... Folgers! And I've smoked in my car while driving for 43 YEARS with never an accident or even a ticket - not even one! I think I have mastered the "difficult" task of smoking while driving by now. I can walk and chew gum at the same time too! [img]:wink:[/img] I drive close to 400 miles a week and I see people all the time with unrestrained children bouncing around in their cars, dogs in their laps, people blabbering on cell phones, doing their hair, putting on makeup or reading maps! And nobody ever seems to see it or even care. But it will be just my luck ... someday I will probably be busted for possession of Folgers Breakfast Blend and my Kool 100s! [img]:blush:[/img] OK, got that off my chest ... I feel BETTER now! [img]:grin:[/img] [/QUOTE]
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