Common Sense

Fantasy Bob supposes it is one of those common sense things.  But he can't be sure.  He reads of a protest in Florida by gym-users against the continued closure of their facilities under the lockdown rules.  While there were banners waved and chants chanted, the protest also involved the demonstrators doing press-ups, squats and lunges on the pavement.  There may even have been a burpee or two slipped in by the most ardent protestors.  All thereby proving that they could function perfectly well without the gym.  A common sense thing.

Floridans protesting by press-up

FB is not sure whether the normal rules of common sense apply in Florida.  But at least these protestors came armed only with their kettle bells, eschewing the automatic rifles that have be favoured in anti-lockdown protests in other parts of the USA.  The US Constitution may, tragically, enshrine the right to bear arms, but it has yet to enshrine the right to burpee.  It may be only a matter of time before it does. Common sense might prevail.

It is worrying when public discourse turns to common sense.  Not that it has in Scotland, but in other parts of the UK it is the talk of the steamie.  It may be as well therefore to prepare for its invocation in these parts.

FB thinks there is serious cause for concern here - cricketers would seem for once be at a disadvantage relative to their peers.  For their passion for the absurd game they love is indisuptable evidence that they are devoid of common sense.  Or any sense at all. 

After all, they are inclined on many Saturday afternoons to look up at a forbiddingly grey cloud-heavy sky and, having taken account of the rain lashing into the puddles that have formed on the pitch, turn to their opponents saying, 'Give it 20 minutes, it should be all right.' 

And they are programmed to turn up to play disregarding the fact that their season's average of 0.2 is indicative not of a lack of luck but of talent.  They will be firm in the belief that today will be the day when the big score comes along. 

And then they are unable to resist shelling out a small fortune for the dubious privilege of sitting at a Test Match, harangued by a group of lads dressed as Elvis, when the invariably umpires decide that the floodlights have made it too dark for play. 

And they are likely to argue long into the post-match beers that the ball that pinned them plumb was missing leg by a distance. 

Yes, this is a game exemplary in its common sense.

It may only be a matter of time before cricketers start protesting against the lockdown and assert their inviolable right to be yorked.  When these protests come, FB hopes that cricketers will drag up any residue of common sense that remains with them to avoid a strategic error similar to the Floridan gym users.