a couple of examples that i've seen, just today, of how people are idiots...
i hate people that walk around with umbrellas. walking around on a college campus this morning in the rain, it seems like 90% of people carry an umbrella. unfortunately, that is an 89% greater chance of getting poked in the eye than on any non-rain day. Maybe it's sorority girls who are too caught up on their cell phones to notice, or maybe it's the 3 people trying to squeeze under one umbrella, but damn it people, watch where you're going.you might not have this problem if you are, say, 5'4" or 6'2", but as an average-height american male, 5'9" seems to be perfect poking height for every umbrella. i feel like, with my hoodie pulled up, ducking and dodging umbrellas, i must look like some kind of terrorist freak.
another example... like i said, i'm in the library. not a public library open to any old person, but a university library. today is my first day in the mason library, and i managed to find a seat, connect wirelessly to the internet, get a student id made so that i could check out books, locate every book i needed (it's no alderman, trust me...), and add money to my newly minted mason id so that i could print off everything i had worked up, and actually figure out how to print it out. that's pretty productive, i think.
however, as i was standing printing out my proposal, a young lady, standing at the computer terminal next to me, wanted to know if i could help her out real quick. "certainly," i said. i never turn down a good looking blonde. her question? "so, how do i find one of these books?" "with the call number," i replied. what came next? yup, you guessed it. this girl made it all the way to college and had no idea what a call number was. sad. further proves my point about george mason.
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