Tuesday, August 28, 2012

How to detect idiots. Issue 1 – Their behavior in a queue(part 2):

The basics on this topic was presented in Part 1. Now, here there are some examples of how these people behave in everyday situations:



a) The line crosses the aisle of the supermarket whose direction is transverse to the entrance to the cash register. An intelligent person leaves a generous space for people flowing through the transversal aisle to pass comfortably. But the stupid not. He sticks to who is standing in front of him to prevent anyone from cutting the line (how can anybody do that to you, idiot? Please, explain me. You have a mouth to speak!).
b) Any row in a place in which a lot of people are coming and going. Again, the idiot sticks to the person in front of him so that no one can pass. Again, how are they going to cut you in the line? People just want to walk through. And if they happen to try cutting in, you can always look at them in a nasty way.
c) Waiting for luggage in a bus terminal or airport. In the bus terminal, we must have seen if your bag was placed close the door or deep in the vault, in which case it will be the last one to come out. If your bag is deep inside, please stand behind everyone since it won´t faint to magically appear in the front.
At the airport, it would be much better to wait away of the conveyor belt, increasing the perimeter and allowing more people to see the belt. When your bag appears, you approach, you take it and you are free to go. Everyone is happy. But no, you're an idiot and you stand close to it. Fuck the rest of society!!!
d) Anything that has numbered tickets. All the same, you stand in line an hour before. Hey, they are numbered seats!!! That means you can get there one minute before the concert, play or match starts and your seat or place will be empty. But you don´t get it because you're an idiot. The height of idiocy is wanting to sit in a much better place than you have in the stupid hope that the person who has that ticket will not go. If they sold you the front row at the movies it is because there was nothing better. If there would have been better seats, for instance, half row-center, where curiously everybody wants to seat, they would have offered you those seats.
Another line of thought leads us to learning that waiting in line is inevitable, that it is a characteristic of our era and that we have to learn to deal with it. When one does this is because one has reach to maturity.
It is difficult to define maturity in a human. Some people say it is to stop playing video games. Others say that it involves drinking and smoking, but moderately, so as to show that you're killing yourself but you are not the asshole who smokes two packs a day. Others argue that maturity is to be critical of everything and place a “but…” after any comment made in order to show that one considers all the alternatives. None of this is true. The definition of maturity is something like this: "A mature person is someone who has realized that Walmart is a private company which aims to make a profit. Thus, it cannot have 300 cashiers waiting to serve you, all day long, no matter if there are only 10 peoples in the supermarket. Therefore, they reach a balance between what the client can tolerate at rush hour and the number of employees that they can afford to be idle when nobody is buying. Thus, this person buys a MP3, a book or magazine and do something with this lost time."

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