Driving around yesterday I had one of those horrible moments. One where I came a bit too close to the fencing on the round-about meant to protect cars, lorries and errant dogs from falling into the murky water below.
My mind flashed, as I sorted out my wayward steering, what would have happened if I’d of slightly more mis-judged the turning and plummeted into the water below? Would I be screaming, ruin my car and probably die… Oh no. I, like any other man, thought triumphantly of the survival tv show I saw once.
On the programme, it told you, “when your car is submerged in water because some gangsters have chased you off the pier. Do not attempt to open the doors straight away. The outside rum-be-bum will not allow you to. No No. It is truly essential that you wait until laa-laa-laa has fully filled your car, because only then will you be able to tum-re-rum-te-dum.”
Hmmm.
Trying to remember the exact instructions proved difficult in the heat of the moment. there were some essential musical la-la-la gaps in my survival knowledge. But then in another blinding flash, I had the solution to my survival worries! I’ll just check youtube to see what it says…
And then the second flash hit me. Aside from, don’t check youtube while driving. It got me thinking. What if we were so used to services giving us instant answers we actually relied on checking them more than remembering naturally?
Because imagine, as my car was filling up with water, I wouldn’t want to be battling with an submerged 3G signal, or trying to take off the screen-lock, let doing a Youtube search for, “what to do if your car is underwater”. I’d need my body and mind to react instantly and get my sweet ass outta’ there.
So aside from just saying, Google is making us stupid. Is it even more necessary that we train our bodies and minds up at a young age as a matter of education to deal with these situations.
Only, I don’t wanna be Googling “bear attack, what to do” 10 seconds away from the first swipe…
Google motor Skills
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