Peoples is so duuuumb!
Had a rather amusing exchange at Reptile Specialists today.
Me: [sees an adorable pile of baby ball pythons] "AWWW! What a bunch of cuties!"
Some Guy: [walks over] "What's cute?"
Me: "Widdle babies!"
SG: "You don't want one of those. They're--"
Me: "I have 18 of them."
SG: "Oh. Well, boas are better. Ball pythons are mean."
Me: "No, they're not. They're wusses. They're afraid of everything."
SG: "I have a nine-foot ball python--"
Me: "They don't get that big."
SG: "Yes, they do."
Me: "No, they don't."
SG: "Well, mine's nine feet."
Me: "No."
SG: "Well, mine's nine feet and he's MEAN!"
Me: "Out of my 18, I only have one who gets a little ticked sometimes." [he'd walked off by this point]
Later, of course, as it usually goes with people like this, I hear him loudly proclaiming to his friend how "Everyone knows everything, don't they?" and "She doesn't believe mine's nine feet; I think that's funny."
I just grinned to myself, paid, and left. I never think of witty replies until later....
1. "What I think's funny is people who believe anything you tell them without thinking about it."
2. "Okay. If I told you I was one and a half years from finishing a Ph.D. in astrophysics, would you believe me?" (I was wearing a Harvard shirt, so this might've been a not-so-great comeback, but I don't consider this guy terribly observant.)
3. "So you're basing your view of ball python dispositions on one snake? Kind of a small sample size."
4. "You know, if you actually thought it was funny, you wouldn't be complaining to your friend loud enough so that I could hear."
Tee hee. [Mater] Peoples is so DUUUUMB! [/Mater]
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Me: [sees an adorable pile of baby ball pythons] "AWWW! What a bunch of cuties!"
Some Guy: [walks over] "What's cute?"
Me: "Widdle babies!"
SG: "You don't want one of those. They're--"
Me: "I have 18 of them."
SG: "Oh. Well, boas are better. Ball pythons are mean."
Me: "No, they're not. They're wusses. They're afraid of everything."
SG: "I have a nine-foot ball python--"
Me: "They don't get that big."
SG: "Yes, they do."
Me: "No, they don't."
SG: "Well, mine's nine feet."
Me: "No."
SG: "Well, mine's nine feet and he's MEAN!"
Me: "Out of my 18, I only have one who gets a little ticked sometimes." [he'd walked off by this point]
Later, of course, as it usually goes with people like this, I hear him loudly proclaiming to his friend how "Everyone knows everything, don't they?" and "She doesn't believe mine's nine feet; I think that's funny."
I just grinned to myself, paid, and left. I never think of witty replies until later....
1. "What I think's funny is people who believe anything you tell them without thinking about it."
2. "Okay. If I told you I was one and a half years from finishing a Ph.D. in astrophysics, would you believe me?" (I was wearing a Harvard shirt, so this might've been a not-so-great comeback, but I don't consider this guy terribly observant.)
3. "So you're basing your view of ball python dispositions on one snake? Kind of a small sample size."
4. "You know, if you actually thought it was funny, you wouldn't be complaining to your friend loud enough so that I could hear."
Tee hee. [Mater] Peoples is so DUUUUMB! [/Mater]
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