SammyChevelleTypeS3
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I am totally aware of that type experience and feeling as I get older.
I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.
- Thread starter JeffKeryk
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I would never be so arrogant and foolish to say I meet the first criteria, but I absolutely meet the second half.
I don't know how many times, when a conversation is over, I think of what I should have said. It used to make me angry at myself. Now, I just know that is who I am.
You're supposed to take it out? AND IN TOO?
SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
Thanks to this thread and the last few comments! Wheee... I remembered to bring the can to the streetside. I forgot last time.
I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but, I really don't care either. I'm not in competition with anyone. But, as I get older, I do get WISER...not so much smarter. And yes, I brought the garbage out yesterday....wrong day...big deal. I just brought it back. Problem solved.
I'm not sure if being older has made me wiser. It's more I'm just less physically capable of doing really stupid stuff seasoned with a little bit of, "Oh, wait, that really hurt last time."
I shudder at the tings I used to do as a young man... How did I survive?
Spending my career working on large, multi-million dollar mission critical mainframe computers kept me humble. I was highly specialized and valuable to the company, but there were areas in the system I didn't know squat.
Scott
Scott
I had to support a mainframe until about 2010, from the network side. I was always happy when those cip interfaces came up, and claw statements worked, because because support was ... lacking - at best. That infrastructure was way past prime.
I came here to say I'm the same idiot I've always been, just less risky.
See, there you go. I don't even know what you're talking about! To be clear, I'm not throwing stones at you. Instead I am expressing my limited knowledge.
Scott
Me too. This is just one example. I crawled out from underneath this thing unharmed. We shot off the road over a cliff, airborne at 60 mph, clipping tall tree tops before finally landing upside-down in a creek bed.
Scott
Idiot power for the win!
If I'm so smart:
1) Why am I so mesmerized by good music and turn the volume up?
2) Why can wife, dog, daughters can all talk/finagle me into whatever pretzel they come up with?
3) Why can't I stop buying from Amazon?
4) Why did I eat that sugar bomb trail cookie?
5) Why can't I listen to every word my wife says?
There are five. Give me time for more!
SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
You stole my thoughts! That less risky took several mishaps & injuries to teach me a lesson that finally makes it stick! 
Using the wrong side of your brain.
You're a (semi) good and caring person? On second thought....
Because it's there!
Who doesn't eat the sugar bomb trail cookie?
Because "blah, blah, blah, dinner, blah, blah, sex, blah, blah, pizza, blah, blah, new car...."
I'm sure we can come up with a few more than five, and they'll probably apply to the rest of us, too.
The wisdom of my father, ca 1975, may he now RIP:
"If you are so smart, why aren't you rich?"
"If you are so smart, why aren't you rich?"
Happy wife happy life. Pretty simple and super smart if ya ask me...
Great thread, provides an interesting framework through which to view current events...
I tell people you can tell who's a complete moron by how confident they are about things they don't know anything about. And vice versa, truly smart people will readily admit when they don't know something.
jeff
I tell people you can tell who's a complete moron by how confident they are about things they don't know anything about. And vice versa, truly smart people will readily admit when they don't know something.
jeff
