buildings, where I was discussing this horror with others at a table. Shortly thereafter, all of those sitting at the table removed themselves from the table and left me sitting at this table alone. My focus then concentrated on family, job, and the seeking of reasons for the increasing insanity of the society. Even though I infrequently communicated with others outside of family, I still became aware of two atrocious and audacious situations concerning the children of acquaintances. Apparently, these families of my acquaintance were reported and then subjected to the decrees of outside authorities regarding the disciplining of their children (with the threat of the removing of their children from the home if the agency’s program was not followed). This made no sense to me as I believed both of these families to be upstanding, righteous citizens. Through a school and community program (D.A.R.E.) it also appeared that many other parents were being reported by children and others to school officials and other officials, and then subsequently to social service authorities for the “abusive” disciplining of their children.
On one business trip to South Florida for the purpose of instruction on a cruise line’s policies and to view cruise ships, I was scheduled on a flight from New York to a South Florida city. The first flight scheduled was a connecting flight which required me to board the smallest airplane that I have ever ridden. There were about twenty people on board and the stewardess announced that the weight of the airplane had to be balanced prior to takeoff so people were asked to change their seats. After this harrowing flight and arriving at my destination of an in port cruise ship tour, I viewed a most disturbing and eerie display on one ship. Mannequins with the faces of past celebrities were scattered throughout the ship’s facilities. I was also introduced on this trip to new security technology where a person’s retinas were scanned prior to boarding the ship (one believes that a person’s fingerprints are sufficient for infallible identification purposes). One also believes this technology to be innately evil, perhaps even inflicting blindness in some select targeted people. This device may also have been put to use to threaten other people who may have been objecting to societal immoralities whether through discussions inside their homes (obtained through extremes of coveting) or with others outside of their homes. On another business trip, I viewed people while walking along the ship’s deck, inside of front windows abutting the ship’s deck, obtaining various body massages. I thought this practice to be an invasion of personal privacy to the recipients of the massages and I also believed this display to also inflict psychological harm on the ignorant passersby.
Prior to boarding an airline flight to the city of a ship’s departure for a vacation, airport personnel searched one’s handbag where the agent discovered a small travel sewing kit that contained thread, a needle, safety pins, and a small three inch scissor with a one inch blade. The small scissor was confiscated and placed in a bin where I noticed other items some of which were not sharp, prompting me to wonder why these were taken from other passengers.
A confusing new method of written communication debuted and was used especially by many young people that combined numbers with words. For example, instead of writing the word “before” the word and number combination “B4” would be written. Many times one became confounded with this type of communication. One day and while at work, a co-worker notified me and also possibly the client, that a