: "People are stupid. All of

February 03, 2001

"People are stupid. All of them," Morgan rather astutely informed me just now. I think he's right. I

think that's what keeps me so constantly amused. It's fun to laugh at stupid people, and now there are more

of them than ever -- 6 billion by current estimates. By 2050 there should be 10 billion. Man, the world

just gets funnier and funnier all the time.

Lest you think I'm exempt from Stupid Person Status, let me briefly relate an experience I had earlier

today. I was volunteering at the library, and this unbelievably good-looking fellow asked me if he could

get on the internet for half an hour. That's part of my job there, signing out the internet kiosks. So, an

intelligent person would have done one of two things in this situation. Either she would have ignored his

astounding good looks and assigned him a computer, or she would have struck up a conversation in hopes of

getting to know him better. I just decided to surrender control of all my motor functions and shut down my

frontal lobe. I stared at him for about 2 seconds, dropped my pencil, made a strange gutteral noise as I

grasped for words. Then, stringently avoiding eye contact by staring at a piece of paper I wrote down a

computer number for him and flailed about in the direction of the computers. I can't be sure, but I think I

also blushed aggressively.

In other words, I transformed myself into a bumbling oaf. This does not bode well for my romantic prospects

in the immediate future.

Posted by Courtney_Sherwood at February 3, 2001 12:52 PM