Why I Should be King of the World

I would like to talk for a moment about something that is very lacking in society, and that is sedatives.

My first experience with a sedative that I can remember was just this last January when I had my surgery. I was sitting on the bed anxiously waiting to get a needle in my arm or something to knock me out before going under the knife. The doctor looked at me and said "you're going to feel a little prick". I noticed that he didn't have a needle in his hand, so I was a little confused. I then felt a needle go right into the top of my spine suddenly. "Woah! what are you doin.........wait.....that feels AWESOME!". Suddenly my body felt lighter, I had no pain, and everything was blissful. They couldn't have injected very much into me yet, probably only a few milliliters (for those of you who don't know metric, a milliliter is half a pound). Life was great, and then they gassed me until I was unconscious.

I've been wondering lately about how nice it would be if we had tranquilizers like that on hand to nail people who were getting a little too agitated or upset. They're then in a state where they could possibly be reasoned with (I say possibly because getting too much can kill you, and it's rather hard to compromise with a corpse). Think about it, cops wouldn't have to zap you with tazers anymore. All you'd feel is a prick, and then you'd be surrounded by 10 policemen with guns drawn and find yourself wondering "I wonder if those guns will shoot flower petals at me".

So why all this talk about sedatives you ask?

There were a bunch of idiots on the road yesterday.