I’d like to talk about stupidity for a moment…

I am normally a very tolerant person. I try not to expect too much of people, which tends to cut down on my irritation factor when I run into idiots. Yesterday was a bad one though. I came across some idiots that just boggled my mind as to how stupid people are. Some people anyway. Especially people in retail shopping situations.

Theese idiots I ran into were two girls in their early 20’s. They were at the Target just down the street from a major university, so I assume that they have at least some post-high school education. Anyway, I was driving through the parking lot, and noticed that these two girls were waiting to cross the street. Being the nice person that I am, I stopped for them and signaled to them to go ahead. They saw me, and began to cross. Right in front of my car though, one of them stopped, bent down, and was looking at something on the ground.

OK, I understand that maybe it was a quarter or something, but that would be easy to deal with. You pick it up, put it in your pocket, and continue. But no. This girl says something to the other girl, and then the other girl bends over and starts looking at whatever it is. They were obviously having a conversation about it as they were looking at it, but ended up deciding it was nothing, so continued across the parking lot. No wave, not even a gesture to suggest that I was there and that they had taken advantage of my generosity in waiting for their dumb asses.

So maybe this isn’t stupidity. Maybe it’s selfishness. That wouldn’t be surprising either. But no matter what it is, it is all too prevalent here in the good old USA.