What If?

What if every American just refused to go to work one day? I mean all of them (us), every one, including policemen, firemen, pilots, sewer plant workers. Everybody.

What if cars could drive themselves? Would they really do that much better a job than we do?

What if you remembered everything? For all your life. What you ate for breakfast as a three-year-old, every stroke from every time you shaved, how much water was in every glass you ever poured. The look on that middle-school kid's face when you told him his family was poor? Everything.

What if the Chinese had a decent navy? They could put a lot of sailors on the water, and a lot of Marines on foreign soil.

What if lightning keeps the Earth alive? Like a huge defibrillator?

What if someone was secretly photographing you when you picked your nose, and then they posted the pictures on line? And then what if someone did that to them?

What if you could understand what your dog was thinking? Would you be flattered, bored, or horrified?

What if you could understand what your cat was thinking?
   We know the answer to this one. You'd be horrified. Cats think of nothing but murder all day.

What if you weren't potty-trained until you were 30?

What if you could see air? What would you see? And would that make you functionally blind? And if you were an astronaut how would you see out of your space helmet, and how freaky would space with no air be to you?

What if all the power in the world stopped working? Even solar and hydroelectric? What would we do?