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Who would have thought that there was an error in American society? I saw one healthy man park a car and go to a cigarrette shop right beside the parking lot. On the way, he passed a leg-disabled man, who was going to a pharmacy two blocks away. To think about it, isn't it strange to place a shop that sells something that ruins one's health close to the parking lot, but place a shop that mostly sells something that makes one't health better two blocks away? Shouldn't it be the opposite?
I looked at the man going into the cigarette shop. the cigarette shop sells all kinds of cigarettes, according to its advertisement just over its enterance. What a nice idea to make money, I thought. Then I found out there was another advertisement, as big as the first one. "Smoking ruins one's body, and can lead to a lung cancer" it said. A very true advertisement. But it was not made by the government, but by a cigarette manufacturing company, Marlboro. It is strange that a man actually pays to buy something that 'ruins one's body, and can lead to a lung cancer'. But it is stranger for a shop, that sell cigaretts, to put such an advertisement just over its enterence. And, it is still stranger for a company that manufactures cigarettes, to make such an advertisement. Did the government pay them to make that kind of advertisements?
About ten minutes after the man drove away from the parking lot, I could see the leg-disabled man crossing the street. He was holding the medicine bag with one hand, and was operating the cart he was on with all his might, with the other. Following him with my eyes, I found out that he had a car. I was amazed to see a leg-disabled man having a car. He wasn't in one of the 'ordinary people's' parking lots. The parking lot that he was in was a special one, only for handycaps. the sign on the enterence of the parking lot read: parking lot for major handycaps only. So, America wasn;t that strange place to live, afterall, I thought. I've never seen a parking lot for handycaps that large! Taking a deep breath, I looked around to take a look at this country with my newly changed veiw point. What big buildings this country has! they have! I've never seen a gymnasium that big, and bikeshops that... big.. Uh-Oh. there was a problem there.
The closest building next to the parking space for handycaps was a gymnasium. Do they want the handycaps to play basketball and pingpong and football with other normal people? Not a bad idea, but I could find a sign that read, 'any kind of major hadycaps not allowed.' Maybe they didn't want to get blamed for accidents that might happen when they allow the handycaps. Then why did they build the building right next to a parking space for? Why did they build a parking lot that allows 'ONLY' handycaps in, and build a gymnasium that allows 'EVERYONE EXCEPT' handycaps in?
They say America is the country most powerfull, and the best to live for everybody, which is quite ture. It wasn't the best place to live for everyone. This was what I've felt after this trip.
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