Have you ever asked yourself, ‘Why are so many dumb people doing so much dumb stuff lately?’
I get accidents. What I don’t get is deliberations (the opposite of accidents). Deliberation is where logic and common sense go their separate ways.
For instance, logic tells us an object will fall and hit something below it. Common sense says not to put something underneath it. Stupidity replaces common sense and deliberately puts objects underneath things that fall on them. (On rare, idiotic occasions, it drops something on purpose to see how much damage it causes to those things beneath it when it falls.)
It’s like commonsense went out the window and a whole bunch of stupidity flew in. Let me tell you of one such occasion.
Those who spend time with me know I always have music playing near me. Sometimes it’s coming from my phone, headphones, or a Bluetooth speaker. I listen to everything – classical, rock, pop, stage, country… everything!
And then someone will blow me away with a stupid question that defies common sense. This happened when a guy heard music coming from my pocket.
The video I made below comes from one such question I was asked yesterday. It was brief (and funny) so I thought I’d re-enact it so you can share in the humour. It’s a story about my pocket radio.
Maybe I’m getting old and cynical. Perhaps I’ve become my father, and stupid questions are stupid because stupid people ask them.
Dad used a weird thing called a ‘slide rule’ back then. I used a calculator in my time. I have no clue about how to use a slide rule, but if I asked him about it, he’d think the question I asked was stupid.
I’m older, and younger people now ask stupid questions. I’ve forgotten that radios aren’t so common anymore. To younger people, their phones do that stuff. They play music, right? To a growing number, a radio is actually an app you install on a phone, not a separate object you carry in your pocket!
Of course, it’s only funny if you’ve lived a little and crossed from what was the past and arrived at the present. Knowing what a radio is and does seems so ridiculously obvious, right? It’s laughable to think that someone doesn’t know what radios is.
But here’s the scary thing.
They don’t. Some are reading this post and won’t get the stupidity. They won’t smile at the silliness, not even a little bit. They’ll stare at this story with silence and a steely blank look of indifference because they’re naive to pocket radios
That’s when you know that a line has been crossed and you’ve become too old to be relevant to anyone.
Like the slide rules of my dad’s day, radios are headed for the history books too. Humorous anecdotes like these won’t land on their pages or get likes. Pocket radio humour is a gift for just this day.
Titters and giggles about phones and radios will fade from existence as one generation transitions to the next. It’ll look back on what was once an everyday device, wondering why young people look at it with a steely blank look of indifference, unable to figure out what was once obviously obvious.
But that time hasn’t yet come. Today, a post about common sense will be used to encourage a little pocket radio humour for those people of my age!
-Michael (Author of SEETHINGS)
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