I can't decide if looking at the Neatorama comment counter that reads '1' and then coming here to read it and finding zero comments, means that this comment (mine) is actually an example of irony. I mean, now there's one, to agree with the counter. It's almost existential, but is it irony?
Pardon me, but aren't locusts edible? As in: A source of necessary proteins and some minerals? Don't some societies gather them and store them for making into, well, food? So when they appear in mass quantities, are we stressing about loss of food, when it's just another form?
Believe it or not, there's a Canadian version of this story - almost word-for-word. With me, it was November, on Hwy 48, and snow and no battery charger for my 'phone. And no jack. And I don't have enough Canadian French to even ask for help, but I did know enough to say 'Merci!'. - -- Changes you.
Heck, I did that back in high school, with Gone With the Wind and Atlas Shrugged. My books, my property.Come to think of it, my Mother had a purse-sized New Testament that she'd created by surgery. She was a Swedenborgian, and for her, only the 'Good part' of the Bible was worth having.
I once worked in a programming office with an old-timer who was French Canadian. He would gesture with the hand holding his coffee-cup. Very enthusiastically. It was a standing joke to always leave a high-tide area around ol' Marc. Then he'd calm down and mumble about he never gets to drink much coffee, and go for another cup.