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

[ourika.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the blase way he says it is more of a man showing a willingness to laugh at himself?

As far as it goes, I was living in Arizona (not a small state although not one of the larger ones - I'm from NJ, so AZ seemed huge!), and a lot of people thought that they could come visit me in Tucson and we could spend an afternoon at the Grand Canyon.

[robot-scandal.livejournal.com]

No. No. I would never laugh at myself. I am far to important to be laughed at - even by someone as superior as I clearly am.

I'm honestly appalled that CA would have the audacity to be that large. It should take an example from New England and divide into 5 or 6 random shapes. All the cities should also be renamed to 'New *insert european city/town here*'

[ourika.livejournal.com]

LOL Well, I'm originally from NJ, and I was appalled the first time I drove Route 80 deep into PA. My friend had told me that the ride would take me hours. I got in the car, hit the border and saw that I only needed to go about 30 exits into PA and laughed at her silly, over estimate of the time it would take. Then I discovered that 30 exits in PA are a different thing than 30 exits in NJ! I was really, truly shocked. Sure, I'd looked at a map and seen the distance, but that just didn't translate for me since it went against everything I'd ever learned. I just figured that I wasn't reading distance properly on the map.