It’s been an interesting week researching and, for some time, beginning to interact with some select people that give me a break from the flat screens within my cave. Most of it has been spent reading and listening to the latest theories on life, evolution, and the thing being marketed as artificial intelligence.

Interspersed in the writing, you’ll find some things I felt like pointing out that persist on the planet, from strange signs to flattening balls to sell them differently (for the same price).

We humans do some pretty dumb things.

One of my ‘favorite’ things is seeing lowered cars in Trinidad and Tobago behind me, because with the roads as bad as they are, you never know when the geniuses who lowered their cars will swerve or suddenly hit the brakes.

I’m not against lowering cars. I just think you have to be pretty dumb to do it in a country with notoriously bad roads. In my experience, and mainly for humor, I point out that the lower a car is in Trinidad and Tobago, the worse the road is that it’s owner calls home. It’s an expensive form of limbo, leaving behind all manner of exhaust parts on the road.

It’s sort of a willful version of stupidity that affects others on the road. It can’t possibly be ignorance. It’s just that people choose not to care. It’s strange to me.

Then there are the odd signs, like this one that on the surface makes sense – use the stairways during a fire.

Most people don’t even blink when they see signs like this, and yet…

If you actually look at it… Go ahead…

A person is walking down the stairs into either an inferno or is summoning a demon from downstairs.

Now this sort of thing is about placement, and I’m not a graphic artist, but I have to think there would be a better way to do a sign like this. People who lower their cars to drive on bad roads might think they’re supposed to walk into fires.

If that were true, I imagine upset people might be lighting fires at the bottoms of staircases to solve one problem – which I’m betting is illegal anywhere you live, so you should not do that. It would probably involve arson, though I imagine it would be hard to prosecute a case for manslaughter or murder when people willfully walked into the fire.

Still. Don’t do it. I wrote not to do it. Don’t do it.

The picture of meatballs being sold and underneath small sliders being sold just doesn’t look right when I resize it – but the local grocery makes meatballs and then flattens some of them to make ‘sliders’. They charge the same per weight, so it’s not a gimmick.

Some people are apparently just too stupid to think of flattening their own meatballs to make miniature hamburgers.

This – aside from the willful ignorance/stupidity of some – seems to be because no one takes the time to observe and think. Why is that?

Because people are deluged in a world. Overloaded. Some people don’t cope well with it, and based on what I see, it seems to be the majority.

I want to write so much more about this, but instead I’ll simply ask that you take a few moments wherever you are and really take a look at things you normally don’t look at. No, not on social media. Look in the real world.

Go look. Comment what you see.