WTF???

Wandering around a locale is always interesting. It is fun to find the little quirks in the system, the things that make a center or city, well, unique. Which is why I highly recommend wandering around areas - the places, the people, the really freaky stuff that you can find while roaming suburbia or a downtown city is... amazing.

But I wasn't concerned with that today.

No, today, I just wanted to find somewhere quiet that I could play an episode of the daily show in peace. A big promotion was on campus, complete with bad karaoke echoing throughout the college. Of course, I couldn't use any building - the library aides tends to be pissy if you make noise, and the student center was full of talkative people. I decided to branch out and head over to the quiet [read deserted] section of campus - the science and math buildings. Go figure. I eventually find a deserted section of concrete, with a lovely row of plants offering some scenery, and settle down to watch my video. As I began to sit down (a complex process involving a backpack, jacket, book, laptop, and bottom), I realized that the tags denoting the plants were unusual - they explained, not only the normal and latin species name, but they also explained which parts of the plants were poisonous.

Yes, you read that right. This was a garden of poisonous plants.'

Really? What sort of campus tells you, not only that certain plants are poisonous, but what effect different bits have in the body AND lets them flourish for picking? Really?? It doesn't even have some sort of sign saying "Beware of the plants!" or anything... It just looked like as harmless a bunch of decorative, semi-maintained plants as you ever saw.

Moral - appearances can be deceiving. It's safer to not trust plants at all.