Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Driving While Empathic

Photo by Jason Leung on Unsplash
Prompts = Humane, Trifle, Reverse
Marvin was a sensitive boy, intensely connected to the thoughts and feelings of those around him. This extended to family pets, zoo animals, and wildlife.
This ability came into sharp relief on his first day of driver’s training after a trip around the neighbourhood; he saw a half-dead bee squirming on the windshield.
How to deal with it? Was it more humane to kill it quickly, or perhaps gently ease it off the car? Could he maybe put the car into reverse and through inertia have the bug fall off?
A commonplace trifle for some is debilitating for others.

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