Ray's Thought for the Day - Special - What the Heck has Changed?

One noteworthy change has been the political focus upon the ever permutating “war on terror”, whatever that may be. Then there are the tank traps in front of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department headquarters building. Also, Coca Cola opened up a bottling plant in Kabul this week. Chalk one up for globalization. Plus, the climate seems to have gotten hotter and drier in these parts. The rich got richer and the poor got more numerous. Those are all changes from before that are immediately apparent to my noggin this morning.

Yepper, the Heck has changed, all righty then. But we should all take comfort in the notion that change is heck, inevitable, and not our fault, maybe. Er. On the other hand, maybe it is our fault. Heck! Let’s ask today’s guest on Ray’s Thought for the Day, Mr. Hector Protector, Safety Expert, his thoughts on this important subtopic, What the Heck has Changed?.

So Hector, I’ve always been curious. Are you any kin to Heck the Pup?

Actually Ray, we, that is me and Heck the Pup, are one and the same person. As a boy I was known as Heck the Pup, but eventually, I grew up to be the virtual guard dog you see seated before yourself.

Ha! That’s what I thought. Then your career as a safety expert more or less parallels that of Cu Chulaind who started out his career as a guard dog?

That is correct Ray. Both Cu and me, have enjoyed long and prosperous careers in the safety industry. For there are many Potential Safety Topics- Environmental Hazards out there, and the people are afraid, lest the environmental hazards afflict them.

Yep. It sounds like the safety industry is around to stay. But Hector, what are some of the changes that have taken place, in terms of environmental hazards, and how has your business plan been adapted to cope with those ever-changing environmental hazards?

Ray, we have revised the business plan more than once. I can tell you, that business plan runs to volumes, addressing every Potential Safety Topic, from the traditional; lions, tigers, bears and rustlers, through the fairly modern; Liquid Paper, right up to the modern; virtual Potential Safety Topics.

Good Goddess, Hector! How many volumes exactly does the business plan run to Hector?

A thousand, maybe two thousand volumes.

Mercy! But Hector Protector, what about these new-fangled virtual Potential Environmental Hazards? How do you address those in the business plan?

Easy that Ray, lots of people are virtual fraidy cats. So all we do in the business plan is exaggerate the threat just a little bit, and that little bit of exaggeration seriously spooks the fraidy cats. Best of all, since the Potential Safety Topic - Virtual Environmental Hazard is mostly make-believe, or virtual, all the work we do to protect the fraidy cats is also mostly virtual. I can tell you Ray, the profit margin on a virtual project is significant.

Whoa! Dang it Hector! It’s wrong to spook the fraidy cats, overmuch.

Maybe it is wrong Ray, but maybe not. Times change. Besides, spooking the fraidy cats is good for the economy.

I reckon it is, Hector, good for the economy. Well, that’s all the time we have for Ray’s Thought for the Day. Chores beckon. Thanks to Mr. Hector Protector for his interesting contributions to today’s thought.