Highlight to Illuminate

Isn't it amazing what highlighting text can do? Nifty little trick. I like to think of it as being similar to a car using its headlights when it's dusk out....or foggy....or when there's poor visibility in general. A beam of light - announcing your presence to other vehicles and illuminating the road before you. It always seemed like a good idea to use headlights when visibility was limited. But then again, that's common sense, and as we all know, common sense is a rare commodity.

Sometimes I wonder if the lack of common sense in relation to driving has anything to do with the color of the vehicle driven. At least in my current neck of the woods, it appears that there is a correlation. Not only will you come across vehicles driving in poorly lit conditions without headlights, you will also find that these very same vehicles occur in colors such as black, dark blue, gray, and brown. Are the owners of these poorly illuminated vehicles burglars in their spare time and are used to creeping around without light? Perhaps. But then again, perhaps not. Like black text appearing on a black background, they blend in with their surroundings. Trying to figure out how to read what I've written here is a mere inconvenience, having a head-on collision is deadly.