Personal Responsibility vs. Blame Everyone Else
Instead of being embarrassed of her own stupidity, this girl goes public with her ‘anger’ at, well:
It was an accident waiting to happen — an open sewer and a 15-year-old girl who was texting while she walked.
Alexa Longueira, a high school sophomore, was walking along Victory Boulevard near Travis Avenue on Staten Island Wednesday evening when she felt the earth move and was plunged into smelly darkness.
She said the manhole she fell in to was left open and unattended with no warning signs or orange cones. She said two workers with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection failed to secure the area as they prepared to flush the sewer.
“It was just really gross and it was shocking and scary,” she said. “Because of their careless mistake I got hurt.”
Their carelessness? What about your own extreme carelessness and downright stupidity? Don’t.text.while.walking. It’s really that simple. As Jules Crittenden puts it:
Good thing she wasn’t texting in a crosswalk with an oncoming texting teen driver. That would have been a text-fecta.
Her parents should protect this girl against herself, and teach her something about personal responsibility while they’re at it.
The insanity of it all… Good God.
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No one can protect that girl against herself — her parents should protect the rest of us from her.
She kinda reminds me of this.
And of course she will sue, and get thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of everyone else’s tax dollars as a reward for her stupidity.
John: exactly. That’s the real problem. They are not getting money from ‘the government,’ but from those who pay the government – other citizens.
This young woman should be nominated for an honorable mention in the Darwin Awards. The really scary thing is, she is not alone.
A month ago I had one young man on a skateboard serenely roll out into the street without looking, and very nearly T-bone my car, which was operating legally and had the right of way. He also, was texting. Had he hit me, I’ve no doubt he would have been seriously injured, if not killed. So did he look embarrassed by the screech of tires – mine and the oncoming car in the other lane? No – he calmly flipped both the other driver and me off, and went back to his texting.
There ought to be some value or upside to acknowledging mistakes, and taking responsibility for our actions; otherwise, folks might not be highly motivated to do so. Responsibility is more than an abstract concept.