As someone I was reading today noted (sorry I didn’t comment at the time), a “powder-like substance” is, well, powder.<\/i> Let’s save those syllables for the war effort, folks.<\/p>\n
Anyway, everyone has gone — well, nuts over this. And, yes, it’s drawn out the lunatics who want to create chaos, and the oafs who think it would be funny to do a hoax.<\/p>\n
But, still, everyone is going nuts over the whole “white, powder-like substance” thing.<\/p>\n
So I’m at the airport, done with scarfing down some McDonalds grub, and getting up to head for the gate, when I glance down at the table. <\/p>\n
Salt. I’ve left some salt sprinkled across the table. Because my blood pressure isn’t high enough, I have to augment it with massive doses of salt, using French Fries as the vector.<\/p>\n
So there’s salt sprinkled there.<\/p>\n
And as I take another few steps, I can just imagine someone coming to that table, seeing that salt, and screaming for security, and haz-mat teams scrambling, and my flight being cancelled, and the concourse being evacuated, and if, heaven forbid, someone remembered me<\/i> sitting there, my spending the next few weeks telling my life’s story to the FBI rather than to my blog audience.<\/p>\n
And it was just<\/i> plausible enough, given the present hysteria, that I almost go back and clean off the table.<\/p>\n
But I don’t. Because, damn,<\/i> life is just too short, even now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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