“If you saw a man in the middle of the night, looking in the windows of cars in the parking lot of the Ramada Inn. Would you think he was trying to get his head cleared? Would you think he was trying to get ready for a day when trouble would come to him? Would you think his girlfriend was leaving him? Would you think he had a daughter? Would you think he was anybody like you?”

- Rock Springs, by Richard Ford

You’re in a hotel, you look out the window and see a lone man in the parking lot peering into the car windows. Are you anything like him?

You may think not. After all, he is probably going to break into and steal one of those cars, and of course you are not a criminal yourself, and neither do you associate with them. (Unless you’re a pirate, arrr.)

Unfortunately, it’s also statistically impossible for you to not have anything in common with that other person. For one, you’re both human. More specifically, you’re both homo sapiens. Which means you have about as much in common as one chihuahua named Sparky and another chihuahua named Aluishious. But it’s also quite likely that you have more in common than just your species. » More: Famous Times