It's cruel to mock the stupid

[pecunium]

Which is why I am not linking to this, but it's an amazing moment of WTF!?!, and I can't keep it to myself (I'm not always the nicest of people).

Today I’m on a flight to San Jose, CA. Well, two flights. Couldn’t find a direct flight.

It was yesterday that I discovered LA and SF were not in the same location… See, I don’t know CA very well and I’m actually headed to Palo Alto. So I mistakenly assumed that LA was pretty much right there, too.

I think the confusion came from last time I was in CA, I flew into SF and out of Oakland, so I had this impression of all the cities being close to each other.

I'm croggled. Not so much that a grown man, and an american citizen, might not know LA and SF are 400 miles apart from each other, but that he would look at a state the size of California, and assume all the metropli are adjacent because two of them were so colocated the last time he was here.

That's the first bit.

The second is that he admits it, with a sense of blasé delivery which implies he thinks this a reasonable mistake to make.

Comments

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Actually, I didn't feel much, one way or the other, about you, which is why I didn't link to it. No one, who didn't go to a bit of effort to find you would have known it was you, had you not come in and tried, whatever it was this post was trying to do.

But you (in support of comments made elsewhere) had to pop above the radar, and tell people; who really don't care, that it was you, so any specific mockery, is self-inflicted.

My point, such as it was (and you will note that the first poster here took the side of the, unknown person I was talking about, to say that such an assumption wasn't completely unreasonable) is that I, personally, find it hard to fathom.

If I was going to Miami, and was offered a flight to Tallahassee, I'd check, before I plunked down my money, and committed my time.

I'd do the same if I was offered a booking to Midway, when I was fying to Rockford.

If I'd wanted to mock you, qua you, instead of the idea of leaping before lookig, I'd have linked to your page, where anyone who was feeling unkind might go, have a gander and decide your self-descriptives might be less tongue in cheek than I think they are.

But I didn't.

TK

[robot-scandal.livejournal.com]

Oh, I assumed by your comments on Scalzi's blog that you _wanted_ to mock me. I seem to have bothered you enough to comment there.

No harm, no foul. :)

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

If I'd wanted to mock you, there wouldn't have been any doubting it.

TK