This week, the Professor of Crime discusses the one thing that cannot possibly be planned—chance.
You might write this off as coincidence, but some of the words on Dad’s column just so happened to strike a personal chord when setting up this article on a rainy Monday morning some 30+ years later. He utilized an oncoming car as an example of assumed predictability. Of course, it was just that—an oncoming car—which without warning suddenly crossed the center line (and the entire lane) to smash head-on into my vehicle just a few months after the ink dried in 1988. Chance, or was I the victim of my father’s karma? Hmm …
The column below first appeared in the Gainesville Times, June 21, 1988. As a liner note, it is printed in the former NE Georgia, Section B, alongside local topics. Apparently, most of Georgia was suffering a severe drought at the time, and the adjacent article covered the devastation to Georgia’s marijuana crops.
Father Time is amused.
