I have no patience this week.
Or maybe people really ARE idiots.
Idiot #1: The bicyclist merrily toodling his way down the sidewalk on Telegraph Avenue, ipod buds firmly in his thick ears, cheerfully ignoring the bike lane not 2 feet to his left. (All the better not to hear somebody coming up behind him, whacking him off the sidewalk, and taking his iPod?)
Idiot #2 (and #3, and #4, and...): The people who, lo these many years of email and web later, who insist on forwarding along every stupid rumor and "warning" they get without bothering to check it out first, or even consider whether they're really making anybody's life any better by doing so. The latest one was a warning that tampons contain asbestos. I beg people to bookmark snopes.com in vain. Honestly, isn't the world already scary enough? Why do we need to be scared more by stupid made-up shit?
