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.

I don't know how, but apparently I’ve done it! At the ripe old age of, whatever I am, I’ve stumbled onto a way to become invisible, unseen, as though I wasn’t there.
It seems to happen when I get into something motorized.

I don’t know how to explain it. There must be some sort of chemical reaction, a strange metamorphosis perhap?. 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!”

Proof Positive that I was 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 everywhere! 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 Pray. Buy the time we are seen it is too late. Warp speed could possibly save a collision but we are trapped in reality. 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. Nobody looks in our direction. Nobody pays 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.

Look around people! Pay attention! This is not a game, 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.

“I had the green light. He came out of nowhere. We didn’t see him!”

NEWS FLASH!…We run red lights!

Nobody comes out of nowhere. The driver assumed the green light made it safe to go through the intersection. He assumed too much. He didn’t scan for us.

This is a dangerous world we live in. Seat belts, air bags, ejection seats, 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. Concentrate on what you’re doing. Look around, see what’s there.

I am not invisible. You are not invisible…nobody is. Don’t make others invisible by not looking at them.

By George