Speeding

Lately, i've noticed that the cops around here are slackin'. Just on the roads, though. I've been in a million cars in the last few weeks, all of which were going 60 mph on a 30 or 40 at some point, and a cop just drove by. Today, actually, my friend and I counted seeing 5 cops, and each time she only slowed down after we passed them. Considering the massive amounts of car accidents lately, why are we able to get away with that? Maybe they were all just coincidences and maybe what I'm noticing isn't really what's happening, but if I'm not just imagining it, this is something that seriously needs to be fixed.

Murderer.

Everyone has seen this guys face a million times. This picture might as well be printed in text books by now because this, my friends, is the face of someone who, simply put, got away with murder. In my opinion, the guilt is basically written across his face. He almost looks a little bit discreetly proud of himself. I don't understand how anyone can say that they believe that O.J. Simpson is not guilty of the murder of his wife. Even though I was young when this whole ordeal was introduced to me, in my head I already believed this guy would have to be stupid to think he wouldn't get away with this. Guess I was wrong. Very, very wrong.
The picture to the left could be the background to this blog. It is the complete definition of what I've been writing about for these last few weeks, which is how surprised I am about how certain people get away with certain things, and how they do it successfully. He is the ultimate antagonist to the basis of this blog, and also the ultimate example of everything that should not be happening in this world.

Softball Game in Jersey

This weekend I went to New Jersey for a softball tournament. We were there from Friday until today; I actually just got home from it. I saw something in the game that really, kind of bothered me. Getting away with or not getting away with something in the real world is a lot different then in a game like softball. The umpire decides what's safe, what's out, what's a ball, what's a strike, and just about anything that requires an opinion. The other team got away with something during one of these games that honestly left me bewildered. Our team was in the field, and there was two outs, last inning. It was tied, and it was obvious that our team was the better one, but we had one bad inning in which the errors got the best of us. There was a runner on second, and the girl at bat hit it to the center-fielder. She picked it up, and threw it to the second baseman to get it into home, since one of the runners was rounding around third. The second baseman made an amazing throw to the catcher, but apparently the runner would have no part in "getting out," so she thought it would be alright to push the catcher off of the base completely and cause her to get pegged in the face by the ball going, oh I don't know 300 m.p.h. The umpire must have missed the full-on shove to the catcher and called the girl safe. Thinking about it now, I don't know why we didn't all just go beat up the umpire. It made me realize how glad I am softball is nothing like the real world, if an umpire was in charge of anything that had to do with my life, I'd be pretty freaking ticked off.

Homecoming

At our homecoming game on Friday, I couldn't help but notice the, i don't know - few million cops walking around. They were obviously there to bust all the people who were drunk, had alcohol on them, or had some kind of drug on them. Honestly, they weren't much of a scare, since just about everyone i talked to that night was at least a little bit under the influence. I realized that us, as teenagers, can really get away with anything we try to get away with, even when it is a group of people's complete purpose to try to stop us or get us in trouble.

A Backwards Situation

I went to the mall this weekend. There was a billion people there...mostly from our school, because of spirit week I'm assuming. A lot happened though. In pretty much every store, a security guard was calling someone's parents because someone was caught stealing. I watched a lot of this happen, and noticed that while the security guards were preoccupied with the people who were already caught stealing, other people took this as an opportunity to steal and not get caught. No exaggerations, I saw this happen at least 4 times and hear kids saying things like "Now would be the easiest time to get away with this." It makes me realize how screwed up our own minds are, as teenagers. The way it all happened seemed like complete backwards situations to me...and none of the other kids got caught.

Clothes; Girls vs. Boys

People get called up to the principals office all the time for different things. Every week, there's always one thing that seems a little bit..unfair to me, for them to be getting in trouble. Last week, someone got called up to the office because of what she was wearing, or more importantly, what she wasn't wearing. That would be completely understandable if I didn't notice at least five other girls dressed the same way, or worse, or even how some guys wear shirts that say a lot of controversial things on them. Once in a while, they'll be told to make it inside out or put on a sweatshirt, but for girls it seems so much different. Guys get away with so much more, when it comes to that kind of stuff.