People Are Idiots

Sheep, maybe the title should have been "People are sheep"...

So yesterday I was getting off the Metro at Suitland station, ready to trudge on over to the US Census Bureau and as usual the teeming throng of humanity that had just disembarked was caught at the bottle neck of the turnstiles.

Here in fancyshmancy DC we've got these electronic card passes for the metro, think EZPass for the subway... ANyway you can waive you card at the turnstile and it'll let you through... only the turnstile I was in line for wasn't working apparently... Undaunted, wave after wave of commuter washed up against the turnstile and met with the same fate as the sheep before them... only to turn away in shock and horror that their little convenience does not work. Today I was using an old fashioned ticket and thus got through.

I was mesmerized as person after person went right up and tried their card after seeing the person immediately infront of them fail. It really makes you wonder about humanity sometimes... Not just humanity, it makes you wonder about God.