When one grown-ass man apparently spits in another grown-ass man’s face, and the spat-upon grown-ass man then rolls his own SUV onto its roof in an enraged attempt at retribution, you know the human species needs some work.
Today, we wrote a story about a silly road-rage incident involving two human males making themselves look foolish, prompting a reader named marshknute to ponder how it is that Homo sapiens made it to the top of the food chain. Reader PollyWantsAKraken had a quick, witty answer:
But other species have thumbs, too. How do we explain that? PollyWantsAKraken has the answer yet again:
Some commenters mentioned things like tools, language, fire and mathematics as other reasons why humans are so dominant, but the real takeaway from this whole exchange is: we’re idiots, and the raccoons are coming for us.