Danger! Warning!

There is a lady that I work with that has been sick for a while.  She kept going to the doctor, and found out that she has CMV, which is similar to mono.  Even though she wasn't contagious, I thought it'd funny to stick a biohazard sign on her cube.  I didn't print one off that had any text, it was just the symbol.  Well, on that same day, I was having a rather long, hard day, and thought it'd be amusing to stick a radioactive symbol on my window, signifying a potential nuclear blowup.  What happened for the rest of the day was rather disturbing.  There were at least five people that walked up and asked what her symbol meant, and then would turn around and ask what mine was.  Five might be an understatement.  It might have been more.  Not a single person recognized both of them, and only one or two recognized one but not the other.  This really concerned me.  How do people not know, right off the bat, what these symbols mean?  I would think that these should be some internationally recognizable, and well known symbols.  I really think that there needs to be some sort of educational thing in place that would make sure everyone knew what these things were.  Although, I guess that this is a bit like the saying, "I'm not saying we should kill people for being stupid, but let's just take the warning labels off everything and let it work itself out."

So, for the good of everyone, here you go.

Biohazard:

 

Radioactive:

Grumpy Young Man

I took the Real Age test a while ago, and it is supposed to tell you your age based on different factors. You answer this little questionnaire that covers your basic health and lifestyle. It then takes all of these and comes back with what your “real age” is. When I did it, it told me that my age is 32. I’m only 23 so this seems to indicate that I don’t lead a really healthy lifestyle. I can’t say that I have really great habits when it comes to health, but I didn’t think I was that bad. Really, based on the questions they asked, I would have put myself much younger than 32. Ironically, however, had the questions been about personality rather than lifestyle, I probably would have been in the 60s or 70s. When it comes to my personality, I’m quite the curmudgeon. I’m the guy that was telling kids to get off my lawn when they were actually older than me. I think it’s largely due to my wisdom and my cynicism. OK, so probably more of the later than the first. That doesn’t stop me from being cranky all the time. Not only cranky, but more than happy to inform you of how stupid you/your idea/that totally random thing is. I can only imagine what I’ll be like when I’m in my 60s.