An Epidemic..I Think

It has been well documented in history that certain situations lend themselves to certain results. If you don't eat you get hungry. If you don't water the plants they wither away into oblivion. If you don't vacuum, the floor gets dirty. All these thing are logical and proven over time. It is very shocking to me that there is a situation which would seem to have any easy fix, yet it silently claims victims all the time(supposedly). You won't hear about his on the news or read about it in the paper but it is here in America. It hits home in Tennessee. It rears it's ugly head in Cleveland, on the campus of Lee University.

I had no idea how i would be changed by one simple trip to the Lee library with my wife. She needed to get together with her group to put the finishing touches on their project and i didn't want to her to have to drive to Cleveland because she wasn't feeling well. Had she not been under the weather i might never have found out about this horrible problem.

We were all around the table, each person working on their own little piece to the project puzzle, when someones computer gave that all too familiar message. LOW BATTERY! This did not alarm us because it happens all the time. People have to charge everything from phones to electric razors. What did we do? We did what every other warm blooded human would have done. We moved closer to an outlet and plugged it in. Not thinking anything of it, we continued on as we were had all been doing before.

Do you every get the feeling that someone is watching you? I did that night. Everyone was working quietly in library when i saw her out of the corner of my eye. She looked worried and bothered. The library worker moved in our direction with a since of urgency that can only be likened to that of someone who is about to go number two, but can't get their belt undone. Upon arrival to our table she informed us that she would have to put a stool over the cord to our companions laptop. We really thought nothing of it until she dropped a bomb on our reality.

With a look of fear in her eyes she told us that the reason it should be covered was to prevent tripping. That made sense. It didn't stop there. She then informed us that "you just wouldn't believe how many people on Lee's campus trip and BREAK BOTH OF THEIR ARMS!".

Immediately my head was spinning. Who would have known. Statistically the majority of double arm breaks happen in auto mobile accidents, but for some reason the librarian feels that Lee has an abnormal amount of double breaks due to tripping.

So i plead with everyone out there, and Lee students most of all, to watch your step. Roll your feet or high step. Please don't drag your toes or just walk willy nilly without looking were your are going because it could happen to you.