Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Hollow Man 2

It’s the story of an invisible guy and his apparent anger at an experiment gone wrong that is killing him because, as it turns out, making someone invisible can produce adverse health effects. But, he didn’t even make mention of all of the annoyances of being invisible in the first place.

First of all, being invisible means people can’t see you to be able to avoid you. Forget standing in line at the supermarket. Someone might bash into you. And besides, good luck getting anyone to take your items from you…they can’t see you. Pushing the shopping cart around would attract attention, with it being unmanned and all. And carrying items wouldn’t cause any less panic.

The fact that you are naked (they made THE GUY invisible, not his clothes) makes it quite impossible too. No shoes would make the asphalt pretty intolerable in the summer and the winter wouldn’t be any better, on either the feet or anywhere else. What about gravel? And if you were able to somehow solve the supermarket problems above, where are you going to carry your money?

On the positive side, you’d never have to pay for a movie again and you could go to the Super Bowl and Final Four every year. You wouldn’t have to stay in shape, and you wouldn’t have to worry about cutting your hair or shaving.

But you'd need to shower.