Some people say that rules are meant to be followed. Others say that rules are made to be broken. Regardless of your personal stance, you must agree that some rules are just plain stupid. For example:
At our medical/dental school, parking is an issue. Because the school is boxed in on all sides, it cannot provide more spaces within walking distance for their ever-growing number of students and faculty. To remedy this situation, they made a parking lot about 2 o r 3 miles away and provided shuttle service to the building. This distant lot is in "Zone V parking" (side note: why do they always use Roman numerals for zones?). The next closest lot is "Zone IV," which is about a 5 minute walk from the school. Jeffrey and I were "lucky" to get Zone IV parking as first-year students. Many of our friends who are in Zone V are frustrated with having to operate on the shuttle's schedule, and applied to be on the waiting list for Zone IV. Yesterday, my friend Ana got the call that she could get a Zone IV permit if she brought in her Zone V permit and paid the difference. Ana asked where she should park when she brought in her permit (because if your car doesn't have a permit on it, you get a ticket), and the lady responded, "Oh, I don't know. People usually just get a ticket when they do this." That, my friends, is a stupid rule.
On another note, let us all be grateful today for the platysma muscle. I learned in Gross Anatomy that this wonderful muscle is what allows each and every one of us to make this face:
Thank goodness for the platysma. Use yours today!
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