“Did we do that?”
In the grocery store yesterday, a stack of pita chips tumbled to the floor. A woman looked back at the pile, then looked up at me, looked down, looked back at me, then asked with her eyes as though I would know, “Did I do that?”
I shrugged my shoulders with my best “I’m not sure,” whereupon she turned and moved away from the scene, ready to brush up against some other brittle display.
“Did I do that?”
My favorite columnist today raises that question about the weather:
So a question has started gnawing at us as we observe events like Katrina and the California wildfires. I asked my friend Nate Lewis, an energy chemist at the California Institute of Technology, what is that question? He thought for a moment and answered: “Did we do that?”
Here’s the column from today’s NY Times.
What’s your idea?