Sometimes you can tell something is fake
because it looks too real. Fake flowers are a good example. You can tell
they’re fake right away because they look too perfect. They have no brown spots
or any other flaws. Or how about wax fruit? You can tell it’s not fruit because
it looks way too much like fruit.
There’s a street corner in Chicago where
you can hear birds chirping all day and night, even in the dead of winter. But
if you listen long enough you realize it’s bird sound effects because every time
they chirp it’s the same number of chirps at the same cadence and the interval between
flurries of chirps is always exactly the same.
On that same street corner there’s also a
facility where blind people learn to walk the streets using white canes. So that
makes sense. The bird sound effects come on whenever the WALK sign comes on at
the traffic light so the blind people know it’s okay to cross the street.
But I wonder what happens if real birds
chirp when the DON’T WALK sign is on. Blind people might wander out into
traffic. Maybe whoever came up with the bird chirp idea is counting on blind
people knowing the fake birds are fake because they sound too real.
But I wonder what happens if a parrot
gets loose. A parrot could do a dead-on impression of the fake birds while the
DON’T WALK sign is on, just so blind people will wander out into traffic. You
know what smart asses parrots are.
Maybe, just to be on the safe side, the signal that
tells blind people it’s okay to cross the street ought to be something you
never hear in the city, which rules out gun shots. How about a lion’s roar? If
a real lion gets loose, the blind people
are screwed anyway.
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