THE INVISIBLE MAN?

For as long as I can remember, I’ve fantasized about being invisible. To be able to walk around undetected, unseen, invading everyone’s privacy, seeing “things”. Oh...the possibilities.

As a boy, I tried many potions and incantations with hopes of transparitizing myself. Once while on a chemical hunt throughout my house I was ecstatic at finding a jar of vanishing cream on my mother’s nightstand. The results were heartbreaking and I cursed the culprits who put such a title on an item that did nothing of the sort. Actually, on one occasion my arm partially vanished, but only for an instant. It’s not clear if I was hallucinating? After further review, I resigned myself to the realization that invisibility was unachievable. As I grew older I found many of my boyhood beliefs to be untrue, including the unattainable aspects of invisibility.

Believe it or not, I’ve done it! At the ripe old age of, whatever I am, I’ve discovered the way to become invisible, unseen, as though I wasn’t there.

It’s quite simple, really. The secret to becoming invisible is to get into something larger than oneself...apparently something motorized.

I don’t know how to explain it. There must be some sort of chemical reaction, a strange metamorphosis perhaps? The fact is, whenever I get into a motor vehicle...I become invisible. Even more amazing, the entire vehicle becomes invisible. Individually we are easily seen as three-dimensional objects but combined, we disappear.

There is documented proof...I’ve taken videos. A camera mounted on my dashboard, recorded events as I casually drove around town. On numerous occasions pedestrians stepped off of the sidewalk into my path. Jaywalkers attempted to dash across the street right before my eyes. When I sounded the horn they stopped abruptly, looked at me strangely and said, “Oh, I didn’t see you!”

To me, that proves that I am invisible!

Further reviews of the tape show drivers who pulled-out in front of me, cut me off, stopped in front of me, drifted into my lane, turned in front of me, slowed down in front of me, and countless other maneuvers...as though I was not there. Each time when I sounded the horn they either displayed an obscene gesture, or confessed they had not seen me.

I was there, the day was clear, good visibility, no pollution, no obstructions, nothing to hinder their views. Yet nobody saw me. That is a scientifical unequivocal indisputable reality fact! An educated mind would have to conclude the presence of that fact was only possible if I were invisible.

I GOT NEWS FOR YA! I am NOT invisible! I have never been invisible, and I will never be invisible! I’m here, I’m there, I’m everywhere! And, I’m operating a motorized mechanism capable of crushing everything it comes in contact with. It can shatter your bones and turn you into a paralyzed vegetable. It can pulverize your body and squash you like a bug. It can take away your future. Make no mistake about it, I am deadly.

Furthermore, I am not alone. I am but a grain of sand in a sea of others such as I. We’re called Drivers, we’re all over the place! We’re all around you and we’re not all normal. Some of us are unbalanced. Some of us are stressed. Some of us are Crazy!

We are not invisible, yet we suddenly materialize out of nowhere like a decloaking Klingon Bird of Prey. Buy the time we are seen it is too late. We become part of a violent crash that leaves our vehicles crushed and unwary citizens dead or dismembered. We stumble around dazed and confused as we hear a voice say, ”I didn’t see them coming”.

Nothing is invisible. We are not seen for one reason and one reason only. Others are not looking in our direction. They are not paying attention. Everybody is in a hurry. They all have other things on their minds. For a variety of reasons they’re all looking the other way.
This is not a game people, this is your Life! Don’t take anything for granted. Be ready for us. We pop out of everywhere. Never assume the right-of-way…We own the streets! The only way to see us, is to see us.

This is a dangerous world we live in. Seat belts, air bags, padded dashes, and reconstructive surgery, are Absolutely No Defense Against an Accident! They all function AFTER a crash.

The only defense against an accident is driving defensively. Be alert. Pay attention. Always see what’s there. Don’t make others invisible by not looking at them.

By George