I Should Sue!!!! (01.07.07)

(Originally Posted on Yahoo360, 01.07.07)

ummm....

I don’t get it. Some deaf, dumb and blind 20-year-old (descriptive text, not meant as an insult) gets on a bus and hides behind a seat in the back. Six hours later, she is found, unharmed. What does mom do? Instead of jumping for joy and shouting ‘hallelujah’, she wants blood. She wants charges brought against the distraught bus driver who has already quit her job in horror at her mistake, and she wants to sue the school district, taking money away from the other kids in order to slap a monetary band-aid over what amounts to a no-harm no-foul situation.

What is it that makes us want revenge instead of celebrating a happy outcome? Is it the same thing that makes us want to get revenge when the outcome isn’t so happy? Are we a society that wants revenge for everything, good or bad??? Should we be compensated for every little mistake that we or anyone else makes, no matter what the outcome?

If that’s the case, I got coffee from McDonalds a few years ago, and it was WAY too hot. This was before they put “Caution” all over the cups and lids. I noticed it, I did NOT burn myself with it, and I let it cool before I tried to drink it. And yet, strangely, I feel cheated. I now realize I should have sued because I COULD HAVE been burned!

Taking this approach, there are so many potential opportunities to sue people over what bad thing COULD happen, I don’t know why I’m still sitting here. I should be out there looking for a reason, any reason, to sue the pants off of someone for anything whether it happens or not.

It’s time Roger got his litigation on. L8R.