Are you a lunatic?
There are times when we question our own sanity and believe you me the times I have questioned my own have come up many a time. However, in times like these when the economy is on the brink of something (ruin or reignition?), my mother is hooked up to machinery that is helping her to “live”, I’m running an ad for adoption that appears just above grave sites for sale, and a family member has arrived on the scene to, as one ex put it, “make everyone’s life miserable” – I had to laugh when a friend said she’d buy my sibling a wicker table if she would only just shut up.
So I got to thinking about how it is that in this world, when you want to adopt a dog, you go to the SPCA and get one. No one asks you to take a lunacy test, to see if maybe you would abuse this animal. And if you want to foster a child who has been through abusive situations enough already, fine, the state will pay you to house the child not first determining if you are not a child yourself. And so when a colleague was commenting on how before the Olympics come to Rio, he’s sure the police will enter the 300 favelas and provide instant change-o clean sweeps of anyone that remotely smacks of ugly and I said, send me a few of those children before that happens.
But then I saw there was a lunacy test online – how perfect – and so I am sending it out there to all of you who need to know. Naturally, the real lunatics won’t take this test. My test results put me closely in line with:
You are Charles VI of France, also known as Charles the Mad or Charles the Well-Beloved!