Damaged?

There's a song by the late Johnny Cash entitled A Boy Named Sue. Fortunately for guys everywhere the name Sue is not one usually considered when for them. However, suing  has certainly become quite the habit.

Just today the Fox News website posted two stories revolving around that very word. One woman threatened to sue the city she lived in if they kept her from riding topless in their 4th of July parade. The law says nothing about covering one's upper half- guess the city's lawmakers should've elaborated. The other article involved a woman suing Victoria's Secret because of defective underwear. The woman says a small metallic object on the underwear hit her in the eye, giving her a cut - guess it was a slingshot. And just a month or two ago a man sued JetBlue because he was forced out of the seat he got at the last minute, and into the lavatory.

Usually when a person sues they ask for a rather large amount of money due to damages. Leading me to ask if they really deserve it.

When I was in the 4th grade I got lunch from the school. Well on one of those hot lunch days, I bit into my sandwich like we all do, but to my surprise I ended up pulling out some sort of micro-chip. I have no idea what happen to cause that little foreign object to become planted in my griller, but I didn't sue- I was only ten, but that didn't make any difference.

It sort of seems like we're not always to accept things as a mere accident. I would think that people who are going to sue are mature enough, and have enough good reason to go through with such an action, but sometimes that's not always the case. I'm sure there have been times where people have threatened to sue even though they failed to read that warning label. I jumped into an above ground pool and when my foot hit the bottom, I slipped further under with water washing up my nose. Where does the fault lie? Or how about this, you spill a drink you got, would you sue for a lid not being securely put on?  So maybe I'll just throw this question out there for anyone thinking of suing; are you really that damaged?