My apologies for the mental meltdown.  My brain doesn’t like it when I don’t know exactly what other people are thinking, so then it starts to churn over and over and spit out the worst possibly scenarios—and it obsesses over them.  Meanwhile, the effect that has on my mental state is… shall we say, unpleasant.  So, things are better now.

In other news, I had another lovely demonstration of just how dumb people can be.  I was leaving work today and headed to the escalators leading to the parking garage.  At the top of the main escalators, someone was stopped and blocking the escalator.  So I waited a couple of seconds to see if maybe she was getting something out of her purse or something.  She didn’t move.  So I finally said, “Look, are you going to go or what?” She turned around to look at me, pointed down the escalator and said, “But it’s out of service!” I replied, “So?  Walk down it.” I could see the light bulb over her head slowly power up, and she said, “Ohhhhh… okay...” and then began descending.

Oy.  I weep for the future of humanity.