Has evolution let you down?

In response to last week’s question,  “Has evolution let you down?”,  my (unnamed) neighbor , who is a pilot for a well respected major airline reflected, “Almost every day.  Especially when I watch passengers try to stuff their overstuffed steamer trunk carry on luggage into the overhead bins.  Or the doe-eyed look when they are pulling a uhaul with 12 bags down the jetway and you tell them they are limited to 2 carry on bags.  Don't get me started!”

My writing and sailing friend Rich shared, “In my case it's just slow.  According to my bride I have a lot more evolving to do before I am allowed out on my own.”  My friend Stuart concurred, “No, but I think it passed me up.”

My friend Swany concluded, “The answer can be summed up with two words, "Jersey Shore" (or a resounding "YES").”    And Snooki just had a baby this past Saturday.

My dad’s beach buddy Bob wrote, “Very much so.  I thought a higher level of intelligence would have evolved  in San Francisco voters.  Maybe it is the weeds that has caused it.” To this, my friend Royce added, “Your answer can be found in Congress.”

My friend Richard concluded, “When I look at what we have evolved into, it makes me want to down a drink or two. Does that count?”

My marketing friend Megan recalled something “not funny, but interesting: Complete personal let down – my mother was completely “evolved”, no wisdom teeth, no tonsils and no appendix.  Yet I still managed to get them all!”

My cycling friend Ted shared, “We in the Dental profession always joke that wisdom teeth are an evolutionary hold over, and the more evolved people simply do not have wisdom teeth. It's not that they are not wise, but that they are more evolved!!(They have avoided the dreaded Oral Surgeon). So, to answer your question from an odontogenic point of view, evolution has indeed let me down, by virtue of the presence of my third molars. Besides, just ask my wife, she says I  look and act like a Neaderthal.”

And my compassionate friend Chris concluded, “God, I hope not!"

Please share your thoughts about "things that make you go 'Hmmm' “:

What do you plant to get seedless watermelon or seedless grapes?  From my friend Patrick

Life  is too short for drama and petty things, so kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly, and forgive  quickly.

Hal

To my friends who joined me this weekend learning celestial navigation: This is proof again that there were a lot of really smart people before us.  They figured out all of the math and science before human flight and computers.  We have role models!