A few days after the horrific Air France crash, I decided to take some time to learn about the different possible scenarios of a plane falling out of the air.
You know, just to be prepared. Or something?
But that's not where this post is going. I found it interested the different things that the google search box offered as I was typing in my query: "what happens when a plane crashes".
After tying in "what" it was suggested that I possibly might be interested in "what is twitter" or "what is my IP". Good questions (do people still not know what twitter is?) But I kept typing.
What happens...
"what happens when you die"
"what happens when you quit smoking"
"what happens when you lose your virg1nity"
"what happens after death"
"what happens in Breaking Dawn" (right up there with death, I'm sure)
Hmm. Good questions, google users. But I kept on going.
What happens when....
"...you die"
"...you lose your virg1nity"
"...you sallow gum"
"...an unstoppable force meets an immovable object"
"...you crack your knuckles"
"...you have a miscarriage"
"...you file bankruptcy"
It got me thinking. About all the millions and billions of google users, each with a query, turning to google for answers. Each with a story, a situation. Needing answers.
What happens when a...
"...dog eats chocolate"
"...volcano erupts"
"...girl loses her virg1nity" (really? again?)
"...bank fails"
"...stock is delisted"
"...star exhausts its core hydrogen supply" (apparently google users are much smarter than me)
"...girl gets turned on" (apparently google users are much smarter than me or just teenage boys)
"...girl takes viagra" (okay, enough of the googling. Get back to your homework already.)
So I was now curious enough to change "when" to "if"...
"...you don't pay your credit cards"
"...you take birth control while pregnant"
"...you miss jury duty"
"...you eat mold"
And there were varriations of the same questions. Apparently, a lot of people are worried about skipping jury duty.
All this is to say, sure I might be neurotic in my plane crash obsession, but there are a whole lot of neurotic people out there. Thank you, google!