If there is one difficulty in my life that I hate the most, it is my high exposure to the lowest common denominator of intelligence on an almost daily basis. Social mores and common courtesy are the only things that keep me from bursting out and yelling at them to explain how the darwinistic concept of "survival of the fittest" has been unraveled by their very existence and how they have been allowed to multiply and overrun our society.
The letter of the law also prevents me from introducing the bottom of my boot to the front of their slack jawed, cross eyed faces when they are being particularly offensive in just their mere presence.
For example: today while on a visit to a Toys R Us, a man who by his very appearance screamed "ass backwards moron" wandered into the game section and immediately started into how much he loved his iPad and how he pissed off someone by wasting his rent money on it. I tried to break away, but he had already set his tractor beam and followed me EVERYWHERE asking me several annoying questions about my employer. I did my best to deflect his lunacy with empty stares and one word answers, but apparently he took my ignorance of him as some sort of challenge.
So upon realizing this was clearly a no win situation using logic, I finally got fed up and looked him in the eye and told him, "Look buddy, I work for the marketing department. I cannot help you 'find a display at a store that is closing down' so you can turn around and sell it on eBay. I cannot answer your questions about things that do not EXIST yet. I am here to help sell stuff to people and you ARE GETTING IN THE WAY OF MY WORK. Take your iPad and show it off to someone who has time to waste" The fact I did not swear throughout that short browbeating was a testament to my being "on the clock".
The fact that me punching him would have made me the bad guy and sent me to jail makes me even more angry.
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