Stupidity
February 15th 2012 21:00
During Calendar Club’s final week of operation, I was at their Broadway store. I was deciding which calendars to buy now that they were forty per cent off when I noticed a man appeared to be dropping a two dollar coin. At first I chuckled, thinking that I wasn’t the only clumsy (or “physically challenged” as I prefer to say) person in the world. After this happened three times I started to wonder how someone could be so clumsy. I then heard laughter coming from above me. I looked up and saw a teenage girl standing near the railing of the floor above us. I then realised he wasn’t dropping the coin – he was trying to toss it to the teenage girl, who kept missing it.
I now found the whole scene pathetic; in the time it took for him to be tossing that coin and the girl missing it, he could have walked up to the next floor and hand delivered it to her. After several attempts, the coin finally landed somewhere in between Calendar Club’s dozens of calendars. At that point I gave up on watching them. I can’t wait to tell Fred. When I told him about the woman approaching me while I was in a secluded spot surfing the net, he also thought she was stupid.
“What makes her think you were looking at maps?” he asked me. “Just because someone has a tablet in their hand doesn’t mean they’re looking up directions. You could be doing anything. And, in any case, people who are lost tend to be looking around with a map in their hand.”
“Exactly. And did it not occur to her that the reason why I chose to do my Googling in a secluded spot was because I did not wanted to be bothered? If I wanted someone to help me, I would have stood on the walkway.”
That’s what I love the most about Fred: We are so alike we almost could be clones.
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