The Buckets by Greg Cravens for February 12, 2014

The sad part is this is based on reality.

Not to mention the cop at the door, metal detectors, drug tests, and lock-down drills. I wonder if my high school still sings “Soon, all too soon, our school-day joys are gone”.

Agreed Sarah.

Are you going to drag Larry along with you?

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No garbage cans? Where are you to put the garbage?.Couple of years ago some people at work complained about no little waste baskets to drop the paper towels after washing their hands., They would use the paper towels to open the doors from the hallway back to the office floor. So extra baskets were put by the doors – both inside & out..I complained a few times – had my boss send out a building wide email that people are not to throw, but actually make sure the towels get to the basket and not on the floor. They would leave their mess on the floor! .Since no one listened/read the emails – I took away the baskets. If you’re not going to use them – then you don’t need them. …… No complaints.

The measure of how far the ‘safety’ insanity has gone is that neither recognizes the insanity of it. No shock and outrage, which would be the reaction if we still lived in an age where good sense prevailed. No, it’s merely “difficult rules” and “normal precautions” — which bland acceptance is plenty disturbing in itself. But then I’m old enough to have grown up before this incremental infantilization had taken root, and so have no trouble recognizing — and saying — that it’s stark raving mad.