Amanda Mannen has written for Cracked since 2013. She works from a rotation of surfaces in western Canada, where she lives with her husband and various human and plant children. You can find her on Twitter @manna_festo, but really, who still uses Twitter?"
When a series of unfortunate events all cluster around one event, however, even the most skeptical start rationalizing that it’s not like throwing a little salt over your shoulder will hurt anything.
It took a few well-publicized serial attacks, along with some help from Hollywood, to turn a species just trying to mind its own business into a national phobia.
You might get the impression from police dramas that cops have been advising detainees of their right to remain silent since the ink on the Constitution dried, but there are probably retirees alive today who complained about memorizing the words.
