I was supposed to have a session with a personal trainer last night, except he called about an hour before my appointment and cancelled.  Apparently, he’d gone to Mexico over the holiday weekend but had no idea that the rules had changed and now you need a passport or a birth certificate (which I don’t get because that’s not a photo ID… unless you use it in tandem with a driver’s license) to get back across the border into the U.S., and he was “being hassled,” as he put it, by the Customs & Border Patrol guys.  I couldn’t stop laughing, not just from the mental image of someone being stuck in Mexico.  How does one not know about these things?  It was all over the news for the past year.  You couldn’t go anywhere in Southern California without hearing about it. 

It’s like these idiots who are still holding their cell phones up to their ears while driving in California.  How do you not know it became illegal on July 1?  It was all over the news, on TV, in stores selling hands-free devices… hell, it was even on those electronic street signs, I continue to see 3 or 4 notices about it on my way to and from work every day.  How oblivious do you have to be and how detached from reality do you have to be to not know these things are going on?  In some ways, I wish I was that blissfully ignorant, though in some ways, I’m really glad I’m not, and it kind of scares me that other people are because you don’t know how it’ll impact your life.

Speaking of which, two of my friends got into a car accident over the holiday weekend — they’re fine, but they T-boned someone who thought my friends had a stop sign (they didn’t) and thought she had right-of-way (she didn’t because she had the stop sign and only did a rolling stop).  Again, someone was being oblivious and careless.