Little Laws that Seem Stupid, but Keep us Safe

Ever heard of some new rule that's been enforced, and scoffed, thinking, "Wow, how totally pointless! Why are they making a dumb rule about something little like that which doesn't even matter?" I'm pretty sure that most of us have at some point. I remember being a kid and going to the indoor pool close to my house. I would always want to be the first to go down the water slide, and would run on the slippery pool deck to get in line for it. If a lifeguard saw me doing this, he or she would sternly instruct me to WALK back to where I had run from, and to WALK to the line for the water slide. It was nothing short of annoying.

But what if one day while I was at the pool, and I happened to slip on the watery pool deck, fall, and badly injure myself? That never did happen to me as a kid, but sadly, it's happened to many other kids who were just like me. The "No Running" rule was really there to protect the kids who came to swim, not to restrict them from having fun.

I saw this sign by the edge of the highway near my house in Portland last spring, after the State of Oregon began enforcing a new law banning texting while driving. I thought it was so amusing that law enforcement would take the time to put up a sign like this that I parked my car, walked up to it, took a picture of it, and sent it to all my friends. But even though I laughed, I know there's a reason behind this "silly" legislature--to keep us accident free. 

This video is hard to watch, but it shows that this law is just to keep us safe!

I'm glad that we have the "little things" there to protect us.