What does cycling without a helmet in the city say about you

It is not known how many planets the universe contains. There are only rough estimates, and they run into the billions. This is a number with at least 24 zeros.

An almost unbelievable amount.

And yet we still haven’t discovered an alien intelligent life form. Of course aliens exist somewhere. But as far as we know not in the space we can play with.

In the midst of this vast expanse of dead space, our beautiful Earth rotates. There is a veritable explosion of life forms here. There are about 10 million animal species alone. And that, in turn, is only a small fraction of what has populated this planet for the past four billion years.

As crazy as it may sound, in this almost endless time and this almost infinite space, we humans (after the reptiles) are the most intelligent beings that evolution has produced. We owe that to our brains. It’s no exaggeration to call it an intergalactic marvel. You too have one. You just don’t want to protect it.

Why?

Let’s hear what the bike helmet rejecters in the Watson editorial have to say about it:

“It’s a little tricky.”
“And then we sweat so much.”
“I just don’t like öppis ufem Chopf.”

Jesus Mary.

And the bad thing about it: these are just mistpetards. The actual excuse, I’m sure, is in most cases:

“I just want to look cute on the bike.”

You know what’s also cute? The liquid food that you have to eat for months after an accident in the rehabilitation clinic. Strawberry on odd days, vanilla on even days and chocolate on weekends. If you are lucky. And if it is still a rehabilitation clinic. And not just any house.

Pingu is cute too, and from now on you can watch him every day on the TV you’re pushed for. No, the underpaid, understaffed and exhausted nursing staff cannot also provide a varied fun program. Penguin has to do it. Trot-trot in a continuous loop.

And all because it’s just a bit “crazy”, because you “nöd so gärn Öppis uf em Chopf häsch”, because you think your life will improve significantly if you spend about 0.7 seconds with complete strangers while driving past a better impressive, they would surprisingly have to take their eyes off the smartphone for a while.

But I get excited.

It is of course your free decision not to wear a bicycle helmet. And there are more reasons for that:

“It didn’t occur to me.”
“It used to work without it.”
“Cycling isn’t that dangerous.”

However the phrases are formulated, they can be traced back to the same four root causes:

The only question left to be answered is what that says about you if vanity, ignorance, laziness or the inability to suffer outweigh the promise of the protection of an intergalactic marvel and the single, irreplaceable control center of the one life you you ever have. when making a decision will continue to increase.

The following answers are possible:

So if you drive past me without a bicycle helmet, the wheel of fortune will start in my main cinema. Each field lists one of the above types of interpretation. I don’t know you, so I don’t know what your motivation is. Usually the wheel stops at ‘vain than smart’. But if I’m honest, it says otherwise. It says “dumb”, just “dumb”.