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Copyrights reserved by the author. If you are in doubt, please click on 'Copyrights' and read the details. Indestructible Borders by J. G. Fabiano
As I was waiting in line at The Shop & Save Grocery Store, like I do almost every day of my life now, I noticed that the person in front of me was very nervous. At the time I did not think my appearance was that frightening. Of course, every now and then my wife reminds me that I should take some time to look in a mirror, but since I was coming home from school I was sure that I looked basically human. I wondered why this person seemed so uncomfortable. I then noticed that the reason the person in front of me looked itchy was that after she put her groceries on the belt she couldn't find the plastic separation bar that determined the demarcation line where her groceries ended, and mine would begin. After a couple of seconds an employee of the store ran up to the cash register and placed a bar between our purchases. This immediately had the effect of calming her down. What power these bars must have! I began to wonder why we didn't use this power of the bar in other sections of our society. Internationally we could place them between the borders of countries. Since no one would dare to cross them or even think of taking something from the other side of them, wars could be eliminated as part of human history. The conflict going on now between India and Pakistan could be immediately solved. Property lines would no longer be necessary. When one purchased some land all they had to do was mark off the property lines with the separation bars. When it was time to sell the property all the lawyers would have to do is go to the properties and see where the bars were placed. They then wouldn't have to charge inexorably high prices at the closing. Then again, I never though that these bars could contain any mystical powers. Locks could also become obsolete in all of our homes. In order to protect your home and family all you would have to do is circle your home with these bars and no thief would dare to cross over into your home. In fact, our state governments could save millions upon millions of dollars by getting rid of all prisons. We could now place these bars around dangerous people of our society in order to separate them from law-abiding citizens. They wouldn't dare cross over the line so we could also save money by eliminating the necessity for prison guards. There would no longer be any accidents in parking lots. All one would have to do is place the bars in a specific order so that no other car would dare to cross over even the slightest bit into another parking area. The use of these separation bars could also eliminate the necessity for a garage or a shed in order to safely store ones tools and machines. Barbed wire fences would no longer be necessary to surround nuclear power plants, military bases, or industrial properties because all one would have to do is surround these areas with the separation bars, so that their security could be guaranteed. Police and Fire Departments could also use these bars instead of the yellow plastic ribbons that they surround a burnt-out house or crime scene with. No one would dare cross these lines unless they were part of the investigation. The only problem would be to train our Police and Fire people to learn how to cross this type of line. This would obviously take a lot of training. The fear that most young parents, who have teenagers, have concerning the times when their children go out on dates could be alleviated. All one would have to do is place one of these separation bars between them in their cars. Teen-aged pregnancy could be all but eliminated and abstinence would finally win over human nature. Then again, we have to go back to the concept that these bars have no mystical powers. Restraining orders would no longer be necessary to protect people's lives. In the past when people were afraid that some other person may approach them they had to go to the courthouse and have a restraining order placed on them. Now with the use of the separation bars all one would have to do is surround themselves with these bars and no other person would dare to violate their space. Cubicles at large business firms would no longer be necessary. All a business would need was a large open room with the separation bars demarcating where one office begins and another ends. Of course spaces between these bars would have to be established to represent entrances and exits. If this were not done we would have mass instances of starvations and missing person reports. If people clearly understand that the separation bars can never be crossed over all should assume that animals understand this same concept. Zoos could now be constructed without the use of cages or walls. The animals could freely roam as long as they stayed behind the separation bars. Even livestock would no longer have to be fenced in. They could wander freely throughout a field with their owners knowing that they could never lose a single one. Bank vaults and safes would become a thing of the past. Money and inventories would simply have to be placed in the middle of these grocery store separation bars in order to protect them from other people taking it. Again the employees of the banks and stores would have to be trained to be able to cross these indestructible borders. Multiple uses of the separation bars ran through my head and I was about to finally understand the incredible potential that these separation bars had in all aspects of our society when the cashier broke my concentration and asked if I was all right? It seems that I was staring into space and was holding up the line. A little embarrassed I told the young woman that I was fine but I couldn't place my groceries on the black checkout belt because I couldn't find a separation bar. She then looked at me with pity in her eyes and found one for me. I then began to think that a vacation might not be that bad of an idea! The End
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