Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Issues

With a lot of recent posts going on at the WSBA message board about racers peeing in any convenient spot that may be available - not necessarily public but still not private either; I've got to wonder what - as humans - our hangup is?

What the hell is wrong with some guy standing behind a tree or gal squatting behind a bush?

Dogs being walked pee on the fire hydrants and folks pickup after their droppings (who's the real boss?) and we see horses going on trails and at the track (he pees like a race horse) and cows in the fields. All my kids wear diapers, as as most parents will attest, it's not that big a deal. We all know what it looks like, smells like; it's not the most pleasant sights to view and folks doing it seem a bit shy & vulnerable.

But peeing & pooping are a life-long natural bodily function for every living creature - a direct result of drinking and eating. You want to stop one, you've got to stop doing the other.

So as with Mother's breast-feeding their kids in public which is a very natural occurrence (nobody is shouting at the zoo to restrict viewing of the monkey's or other apes from doing the same) - this seems to create an awkwardness or outright furor among some people. Where did we all get so prude?

We've got manners! We've evolved!! We're more intelligent!!! Well apparently we're not.

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