Can I just rant for a moment?  So I was about to check my yahoo today, and on the main yahoo page, the feature story was this.  It’s kind of a long video clip, so here’s what it is in a nutshell.  The link is a video interview with a woman who got caught on a security camera falling into a mall fountain while texting (see the actual footage above).  Listen, I feel bad for the lady, because I’m sure it was extremely embarrassing, but the video is  pretty funny.

But the thing that gets me, is that apparently she is planning on suing the mall (where she also happens to work), because no one came to help her.  She says that apparently security came 20 minutes later, but that wasn’t good enough for her.  But, if you watch the actual security tape footage, as she falls in, there is no one around!  There is a couple of people walking, who all happen to go in a store right before she falls, and there is a janitor mopping or something in the foreground, who has his back to her.  Soooooo, is it really the mall’s fault that no one helped her?  Also, she even admits (and you can see it!) that she immediately gets right back out of the fountain and walks away….so she didn’t even wait for help (not that she needed any!).

So is it the principle of the matter that the mall “didn’t care” or does she just want some moolah for the embarrassment?  Because after all, it’s certainly not her fault she fell into a fountain!

And the moral of the story is, (and a direct quote from the woman who fell….) “Do not text and walk!”

My house has been sick. Buggy with a cold first, which she so graciously gave to Dave and me, and then she had some sort of stomach bug yesterday as well. Dave and I are not quite as resilient as we thought as our colds have kind of knocked us on our bums this week.  And yes, I have a two year old, so we say “bums” in our house.  So today has been kind of a chill day, complete with whole pots of macaroni and cheese and four hours naps.  Oh, and mindless youtube-ing.  I started out wanting to watch some of the dance scences from Glee and remembered this one…..

which, of course, caused me to search Flash Mobs.  And so I found this one….

And then this spin-off of a Flash Freeze.

And I don’t know, but there is just something comforting about the way all these people can work together for a few minutes to create something amazing….makes you wonder what we could really accomplish in the world if we all put our heads together……