Sunday, October 03, 2004

idiot test

here's a quick idiot test for yourself and your viewers...

ask yourself if you know the difference between trusting someone to make a responsible judgment call versus actually asking them to make a particular judgment.

then ask yourself, if there is a difference, can you be upset with that person for abusing and completely blundering his newly given authority.

hmm... makes you think about the truth of things a little huh?... or... are you so emotional about this question (because you failed the idiot test maybe?) that you can't think straight, logically or with common sense?

i was house sitting a foreign friend's house once and he gave me the authority to "bomb" his house with a fogger if it was necessary, but only as a last resort because of the devastating nature of doing that to his home...

well i really didn't care about the poison being spread all throughout his home and i had no intention of cleaning up the mess after the dust settled... but i thought to myself... if i just go ahead and bomb it now i don't have to worry about them damn cockeroaches down the road.

well needless to say when my buddy saw what i did he was upset. i didn't understand why i did it, but i explained i was just trying to help him. then he asked, "well what the hell did i do that for cause he didn't find a single dead cockroach after my bombing?"

i said it was a preemptive cockroach strike cause i thought they were there and i was freaked out about the possibility.

oh well, sometimes mistakes are made....

then he asked why i didn't clean up the mess afterward... i told him i had a friend named haley that would be more than happy to stop by and clean it up for a few bucks... (heh heh... she totally gives me a kickback when i refer cleanup jobs to her.. what a win-win for me.. lol)

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