Crack Awareness

Curmudgeons are not big on transportation by bus, and we certainly don't need to see this sort of public awareness program to remind us why.

If you're over 10 years old, you have no doubt seen the Dan Ackroyd skit on Saturday Night Live when a crack was first exposed on TV. But unless you're 50-plus, you may be missing the context. Stuff like that just didn't appear on TV in those days. Hell, the censors had only just permitted married people to be in the same bed at night.

So it was a monumental moment for TV. Funny and surprising. However, seeing these things repeatedly in public is neither funny nor enjoyable in any sense. And it is all too common.

Something is very wrong with such people.