I enjoyed this imaginary conversation with a fellow who thought that all stupid people should wear a sign saying they are stupid. What I loved most however was how it ended:
"Why don't stupid people have signs? Stupid people should have to wear signs that just say, "I'm Stupid". That way you wouldn't rely on them, would you? You wouldn't ask them anything. It would be like, "Excuse me...oops, never mind. I didn't see your sign."
It's like before my wife and I moved. Our house was full of boxes and there was a U-Haul truck in our driveway. My friend comes over and says "Hey, you moving?" "Nope." I say, "We just pack our stuff up once or twice a week to see how many boxes it takes!" Here's your sign."
A couple of months ago I went fishing with a buddy of mine, we pulled his boat into the dock. I lifted up this big 'ol stringer of bass and this idiot on the dock goes, "Hey, you caught all them fish?" "No - We talked 'em into giving up." I say. There's your sign." I was watching one of those animal shows on the Discovery Channel. There was a guy inventing a shark bite suit. And there's only one way to test it. "Alright Jimmy, you got that shark suit on, it looks good... They want you to jump into this pool of sharks, and you tell us if it hurts when they bite you." "Well, all right, but hold my sign. I don't wanna lose it!"
Last time I had a flat tire, I pulled my truck into one of those side-of-the-road gas stations. The attendant walks out, looks at my truck, looks at me, and I SWEAR he said, "Tire go flat?" I couldn't resist. said, "Nope. I was driving around and those other three just swelled right up on me! Here's your sign."
We were trying to sell our car about a year ago. A guy came over to the house and drove the car around for about 45 minutes. We get back to the house, he gets out of the car, reaches down and grabs the exhaust pipe, then says, "Darn that's hot!" See? If he'd been wearing his sign, I could have stopped him. Then I learned to drive an 18 wheeler the other day. Wouldn't ya know I misjudged the height of a bridge. The truck got stuck and I couldn't get it out no matter how I tried. I radioed in for help and eventually a little kid shows up stands there gaping in front of me at my truck. I thought here's a lil feller who sure needs a sign and sure enough he says "So is your truck stuck?" I couldn't help myself! I looked at him, looked back at the rig and then back to him and said "no I'm delivering' a bridge... here's your sign."
The lil' feller he sort of looks at me and I swear I could see him looking all over me for my sign, then he says, "I can help you get it through!"
"Oh yeah!" I say, "You think I'm stupid?"
"Yeah," he said and again he was lookin' at my sign, "why don't you just pull some air out of your tires, it'll sail through!"
"Oh man, oh man, after that its been a long time since I been looking for signs on other people, the one hangin' on my chest is a huge big one..!
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Editor : M. Shamsur Rahman
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Editor : M. Shamsur Rahman
Published by the Editor on behalf of Independent Publications Limited at Media Printers, 446/H, Tejgaon I/A, Dhaka-1215.
Editorial, News & Commercial Offices : Beximco Media Complex, 149-150 Tejgaon I/A, Dhaka-1208, Bangladesh. GPO Box No. 934, Dhaka-1000.