Inspired by Zohrbak’s posting about stupid people here’s my slant on the situation:
There seem to be a lot of stupid people popping up in my human experience right now. For whatever reason (maybe I’m just as stupid myself) I keep running into them and it’s starting to actually get me down. The occasional incident of human stupidity you can simply shrug off – but when it starts to occur on what seems to be a continuous basis you begin to ask yourself: How much more stupid can you tolerate?
Here is just one of many examples:
Last week I took my cat to the vet for a ton of injections and then before I left the office, I paid the ginormous vet bill. A few days later I got a letter asking for payment of the ginormous vet bill and reminding me that if I didn’t quickly pay the ginormous vet bill I would soon be getting charged some ginormous interest. So I called the vet to see what was up.
Me: Hey I’m calling about a vet bill
Stupid: What is your last name?
Me: Kerley
Stupid (in an irritated tone): No! What is your last name?
Me: Erm. That would be Kerley.
Does Kerley sound like a first name to you? Maybe in rural Missouri? I’ve no idea. And it just went on in that vein for a full twenty minutes ending with the receptionist saying she would look for my payment and possibly get back to me… Look for my payment? Did you mistakenly let it fall inbetween the cracks of the waiting room sofa? Wha?
It’s this level of stupid makes me want to cower in the corner.
So this incident in isolation isn’t going to send you over the edge but when you combine it with the seventy other stupids I’ve come across this week it starts to erk.
Like the bus driver who blew through a red light this morning and then gesticulated at me as I swerved out of the way to avoid hitting him.
Also my esteemed colleagues who leave the disposable/flushable toilet seat covers languishing on the toilet seat after they have used them. Really? You expect/want someone else to handle the tissue you just used to seat your naked and possibly germy butt upon before they can have their own toilet experience?
I feel like holding a meeting in a large room, sitting all these people down and just trying to explain…
But they probably wouldn’t get it… because they are stupid.
