Always Trust Strangers
Thursday, February 7th, 2008It’s not that we should trust people. It’s that we do.
I’ll explain.
While waiting for Saturday night’s concert to begin, the man sitting next to us placed his coat on his seat, and got up to buy a drink.
His wife passed her coat up from the aisle to us, through the hands of a dozen people and asked that we place it in her seat. The couple then went off to the bar, without any apparent worry that their seats or coats would be gone when they returned.
And it hit us: What a wild thing that this couple trusted a dozen strangers with their stuff!
We got to thinking: Functional society only works because we are trusting. I trust the weatherman, I trust the guy driving next to me, I trust the waitress that brings me coffee and I trust the little man carved into the door of the men’s room. (more…)
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