say whaat?

Let’s read this:

AP - Detroit. Residents of Miami, FL woke up to a white Christmas Monday, when they discovered 2 ft of snow awaiting them outside. Rodrigo Padilla, 32, was both ecstatic and irritated with the surprise. “I was just on my way out, to pick up costumes for Halloween when I realized I have to shovel myself out of the garage. Looking at my chicas making snow angels and a snowman made me forget all the work ahead of me.”

one one-thousandths…two one-thousandths…

Notice anything wrong with that article?

What’s that you say? Snow in Miami — you’re not buying that? What else? Hmmm.. “Christmas” before “Halloween”… AHA! Some things not adding up, right?

But I bet most of us did believe that story at first glance - probably saying to ourselves, ”self,  good thing we don’t live in Miami”.  We jumped into conclusion without really reading or thinking.  We believed it even if we know for a fact, Halloween is before Christmas and it hardly ever snow in Miami. Ever.

If we have done a “stop and think” maneuver, we would have trashed that article already. You see, we have the tools to make a logical conclusion - actually it’s singular - the brain.  I have it; I’m pretty sure you do too.

Speaking from experience, it doesn’t take a lot of time to use the brain, it’s painless and easy too.  So it might be worth the little time to use it.  Maybe we’ll even save some nerves, prevent some premature heart attacks and therefore, save lives.

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