Just in case...

I fucking hate "just in case."  The phrase implies a certain laissez-faire attitude, yet you are actively probing the unlikely (i.e. shitting on the concept of come what may).  "Just in case" gives primacy to impossibility.  It teases fear out of complacency.  "Just in case" is the seat of a hypochondriac's psychosis: it is unlikely that you have the rare sub-saharan plague that is butchering small puppy liver's throughout midwestern China, but let's check you JUST IN CASE!  Better run just in case I decide to shove my fist up your ass for freaking me out.

I wrote this piece just in case someone is reading my blog.