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Stupidity, Tiger Woods and Young Fans
I usually focus on everyday stupidity, the type we come across in banks, gas stations, public libraries and bathroom fixture outlets. But I’m afraid the Tiger Woods’ scandal has seeped into my everyday life. I’ve always regarded him...
Stupidity and the Gardener Part 1
Every year about this time, my lone walnut tree erupts with nuts. If you’re a walnut fan and you’ve never had fresh walnuts, ’tis a pity. Just ask my walnut addicted, shell crunching dogs or the thieving, greedy crows (why did God ...
The Sixth Sense and Stupidity
Most of us thinking, breathing humans have five senses. Stupers (short for militantly stupid persons) however, carry around a sixth sense that the rest of us lack. Don’t worry; you’ll be glad you’re missing this one. Husband (H) dr...
Stupidity and Karma
It’s tremendously satisfying as well as entertaining to witness the punishment of an act of stupidity moments after it occurs. A few years ago, Son #2 and I waited in the car at the local college to pick up Son #1. While we sat, a large pick-u...
Judging Stupidity
Yesterday, I had more than my fair share of stupidity. Even a stupidity specialist such as myself can get bombarded now and then. First, a legendary literary agent informed me the idea for my blog is “cute,” but the writing didn’t &...
When Stupidity Gives Advice, Find the Nearest Exit
If you live in the big city, I suggest carrying around earplugs or beeswax to promptly stick in your ears because chances are astronomical that you’ll encounter a talking stuper (short, as you all know, for a glaringly stupid person). If you...
Dialing Stupidity
Do you like to gamble? I don’t. Unless I use some one else’s money. Like the time my mom and I went to the nearest Native American (notice I didn’t say “Indian” or “Injun,” as I strive to be politically corre...
Repeat Stupidity
Once I’m done with a stuper (short for an unsparingly stupid person), I’m pretty much done. I don’t expect, encourage or incite any further contact. However, yesterday at the Farmer’s Market, I found myself standing next to ...
Stupidity and the Economy
If you ever happen to notice a smartly dressed, youngish woman with great hair, dragging her feet in the parking lot of a bank, unhurriedly making her way towards the entrance doors, while muttering under her breath, that would be me. I’d only ...
Stupidity and Negative People
How many of us need to be reminded that our current economy is shaky? If you don’t listen to the news or read the headlines, all you have to do is hit the streets to hear: “bleak,” “…despite the economy…” ...
When Stupidity Sits at Your Table and Courtesy is Required
When attending a large, boisterous Christmas party, it’s positively guaranteed that a stuper (short for a prodigiously stupid person) will be seated at your otherwise cheery table. And so it was for this seasoned, stupidity specialist. Husband ...
Stupidity - Cause and Effect
Lately, I’ve found myself pondering vital, life-altering issues such as: which came first, the chicken or the egg the stuper (short for a provokingly stupid person) or the recurring, nerve wrenching, imbecilic acts of stupidity? To find the an...
Stupidity and Self-sabotage
Self-sabotage is still another pitiable offshoot of stupidity. I don’t usually feature younger stupers (short, as most of you know, for irretrievably stupid persons), but in this case, an empty head in his early twenties engaged in an unfortuna...
Don’t be a Doormat for Stupidity
Since the infancy of this blog, I’ve received a few complaints. Yes, I know; my dearest readers are muttering, how is that remotely possible? It just is. These choleric grumblings arrive in e-mail form, carrying a snarky, dismissive tone on ...
Playing it Cool with Sears Repair Service Stupidity
If the kitchen is the heart of the home, then the refrigerator is an artery. A rascally main artery. When such artery is clogged, the heart malfunctions. Let’s just say, my fridge is currently clogging up the heart. During a recent heat wave, o...
Checking Account Stupidity
I owe a sincere thanks to all stupers (short, as most of you know, for unmistakably stupid persons) who faithfully dawdle across my path guaranteeing me ample material for my stupidity studies. The latest incarnation of stupidity involved stuper empl...
Gawking Stupidity Strikes Again
One of the most vile, lowly, meaningless and potentially harmful forms of stupidity is one I’ve posted about in the past. Yet, I must mention it again. If you ever housed any doubt that stupidity is indeed a type of disease, even an epidemic, t...
Stupidity’s Greatest Love
A surefire way to make a stuper (short again, for a ceaselessly stupid person) your bff (best friend forever) is to show him/her your money. As long as there’s plenty of it. You’ll have your very own, newly found, totally devoted stuper b...
Time and Stupidity
For years, scientists have been grappling with the concept of time. They dream of harnessing this elusive, mysterious phenomenon in order to perform heretofore unimagined wonders. Stupers (short for chronically stupid persons) often manage to stop t...
Traveling Stupidity or Stupidity Does Not Make a Good Eyewitness
It was pointed out to me that I seem to have a flair for finding stupidity wherever I go. It’s true. I’m always on the lookout for stupers (short, once more, for fundamentally stupid persons), but I do it for the sole purpose of assistin...
Stupidity Attempts Conversation During Dinner
Ah! What an enormous pleasure it is to feast on a sumptuous meal in excellent company. Unfortunately, nothing can deflate a delectable dining experience faster than doleful, depressing subject matter, i.e., when a stuper (that’s right; short a...
Shortcut to Stupidity
I practically crash-landed into a veritable hotbed of stupidity the other day when I visited Costco, the discount membership warehouse club superstore. For over an hour, I was subjected to one stuper (short for an unquestionably stupid person), after...
Give Stupidity a Time-out
“Kill himmmm!” someone screeched from the bleachers. I had a problem with this. The screamer was yelling for someone to kill my then eight-year-old son. The above battle cry did not come from a roving banshee. Nor did it emanate from a me...
Stupidity’s Favorite Color: Stripes
There’s something most of us wear every single day of our lives. It’s one of the first things others notice when they look at us. Therefore, it’s of utmost importance that stupers (short once again for unequivocally stupid persons)...
Trashy Stupidity
There’s a habit so vile, a vice so loathsome that it can only be practiced by stupers (short, once again, for chronically stupid persons). I refer to the affliction known as… littering. Human garbage dispensers regard the world as their p...
