I Don't Get It
I find myself constantly repeating the same phrase, "I don't get it."
Before you jump to any conclusions, I'm not speaking about the usual things to understand--books, code, life, etc. But what I don't get is all of the little wierd things that I see people doing. For example:
1) Driving down the road tonight, I saw a woman pushing a stroller down the middle of the street, weaving back and forth. As I apply my brakes and swerve around her, I said, "I don't get it..."
2) Driving home from work today, I was behind an SUV at a stop sign. Except the driver of the SUV forgot that it was a stop sign, not a stop light. I started chanting, "I don't get it...I don't get it..."
3) [The names of this story have been omitted to protect those invovled] I was talking to someone the other day when an unusually terse and unnecessary comment was made. I thought in my mind, "I don't get you..."
So I wonder is it my plight to deal with stupid people on a day-to-day basis? Yes, I know this post is more caustic than most, and to a certain extent I'm being unnecessarily arrogant. But I cannot seem to fathom the pervasive stupidity in the world. And perhaps there aren't really that many stupid people, but they just are the ones getting all of the attention all of the time... I just don't get it.
But this makes the "Love your neighbor as yourself" command just a little bit harder.
What do you think?