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Jaywalking

As I jaywalk across Morrison I pretend not to notice the maraschino cherry red Toyota making a right hand turn. I proceed to walk deliberately across the street. How liberating! "People do this all the time," I think to myself. Not just feigning notice of a car when jaywalking, but jaywalking through life, somehow protected by an invisible force-field of blatant disregard and indifference. Why not I? Am I not entitled to merely periodically trying this armor on for size? Ignorance is bliss? I think not.

An apparently prominent source of bliss for a majority of the population, it would seem, is cool, calculated, craftily conceived, non-ignorant (yes, I realize that is not a word. It's called poetic license for those of you who may read this in years to come) indifference.