Idiots

"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.  People are so stupid."  Ha ha! I don't remember where I found this quote or who it belongs to, but I like it!  Now I don't consider myself a super genius, but I'm arrogant enough to think that I'm above average when it comes to intelligence.  Now I'm not the only one to blame for that.  Some of the fault goes out to the education system and my peers for telling me that I'm an above average scholar.  Anyway, back to the quote.  It is nice knowing things and being considered smart, but the smarter you are the more the average person irritates you to death.  As your knowledge becomes more massive you tend to notice more than the average human and think more clearly and when they fail to notice the seemingly obvious answer, it's somewhat irritating.  Let's see if I can scrape up some examples.  It's rarely a situation that takes a lot of knowledge or thinking, all it requires is common sense.  Now before those of you who have known me in my times of stupidity I acknowledge the fact that sometimes I don't really think things through.  The people I'm referring to, however, are those who continually leave their common sense at home.  For example:  You are driving along a fairly busy road at a moderately high speed.  To reach your destination you are required to make a right turn.  Those who lack common sense slow down within the lane and make the turn with people braking behind them and waiting for them to get off the road.  Now those with common sense would move over sooner so they can slow down after they are out of the main lane of traffic keeping driving efficient and uninterrupted.  My next example may offend the individual involved, but if she does read this I would like her to know she is forgiven and I love her and in no way think of her as an idiot.  This is merely for the sake of providing an example.  It is three in the morning.  For some unexplainable reason you have postponed your sleep and are burning the midnight oil.  It's quiet and you're getting bored listening to the noises of night.  You plug your computer into you speakers and browse your itunes for some bass blasting music.  At 3:00 am, that's three in the morning people, well after your tired ROTC roommate has gone to sleep on the other side of the thin closet walls, you click the play icon and jam out to your dance mix with the bass turned to it's highest.  That would be the actions of a person who is not using common sense.  An individual exercising common sense would grab a portable music player and utilize the wonderful invention of headphones in order to respect the exhaustion of her roommate.  Example 3:  The baby in your charge is crying and your head is aching.  You try hopelessly to calm the child.  You offer a bottle, a binky, your cell phone; nothing is working.  Finally you offer the child a nickel.  For some reason the infant is appeased.  You let out a sigh of relief.  The problem with the average person in this situation is that they became so focused on their objective that they didn't think it through.  Coins are chocking hazards.  Coins combined with infants answer to curiosity of putting whatever it may be into their mouths doesn't provide a good outcome.  Anyway I grow bored with this topic. I hope you enjoyed my random thoughts and I apologize if you were offended.