Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 10, 2022

Like someone driving 90 mph on a street with traffic lights.

If you’re standing in the middle of a giant “X”, you’ve probably got more than one life choice to question.

If the shadow around you keeps growing bigger and bigger …

Fatalism for X-istentialists.

“The thing you never saw coming is here.”

“You are here…and all over here and there and some way over there and ….

Everyone else sees it; why can’t you?

You’d think the sound of the object whistling through the air would tip him off.

Grand piano? Anvil?

The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind. The kind that blindsides you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.

After all, it may be that each of our lives is Pre-dust-to-dustined.

Things is, this might look more natural if he was carrying a cell phone. Folks who are engrossed in their phones while walking, driving, etc, usually don’t see anything coming, as they never seem to look around or ahead, much less up. Of course, stuff can happen to any poor shmoo, phone or not.

If you cross the street quickly, it won’t matter that you didn’t see it coming. [If you stay there (which right now is “here”), you’re in trouble.]

You can’t say you weren’t warned …

Much worse are the things you can see coming a mile away and are powerless to avoid/

Be x-tra careful around those x-tra quiet electric vehicles.

Might have seen it coming if that big sign wasn’t blocking the view.

An apt metaphor for the human condition.

Here, Spot

“X never, ever marks the spot.” Indiana Jones. …and he was wrong.

Well, any guesses? A piano? Anvil? Remnant of a chinese space station?

I saw Trump coming in 2015. I just couldn’t believe what I saw. Now I see DeSantis. Yikes !

My life has been like I carefully look both ways before crossing the street and then I get hit by an airplane.

There’s a line from the “Bridge Over the River Kwai” that drove the American officers crazy: “There’s always the unexpected.”

Of course he couldn’t see it coming with that big d@mn sign in the way.

A toilet seat from the de-orbiting MIR space station?

How can the sign show something you’ll never see ? If he moves, will the sign move ?…..I’m starting to think this is some fake news.

It’ll catch up with him…

…3-2-1

He should know its a trap when there isn’t any bird seed

I’d turn around and go back home or to the office myself.

Ally Babble for President

Fortunately, I’m a “speed reader” and do not linger on the “X”. :)

No one would even glance twice . . . people don’t read signs!

Its the unforeseeable that will get you

remember the old lady with the dogs in "a fish called wanda? and k-k-k-k-ken??

Chances are good you will encounter something you never saw coming in the near future. The universe is beyond human imagination.

Oh yeah, but a smart info kiosk would explain more. Bystanders are looking up, but the map can be interpreted horizontal as well. At least he has fair warning and following tragedies.

How many people, when reading that sign, would look for “The Thing”?

‘The thing’ is down the street, not up in the sky

He is going to be hit by a bus when he steps off the curb.

Information Overload.

Ok. I did not see the X he was standing on before!

At least he knows he’s Wanted.

I still like a line from Tiny Toon Adventures:

Max, as an anvil is hurtling down at him: “Perhaps I should move?”

Vinny (the one who dropped it on him): “Who then would laugh?”

Why are they all looking up? The map shows the event is up the street.

Well, now the guy can see it coming.

“Frito was filled with a vague fear that time was running out. He remembered Bromosel’s ill—omened dream and noticed for the first time that there was a large blotch of lamb’s blood on the warrior’s forehead, a large chalk X on his back, and a black spot the size of a doubloon on his cheek. A huge and rather menacing vulture was sitting on his left shoulder, picking its teeth and singing an inane song about a grackle.” —Henry N. Beard & Douglas C. Kenney, Bored of the Rings

Is that Thing a piano or a safe?