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uPick

Why are you even talking?

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I just had a rather irritating conversation with a person on a passenger ferry. He saw I was reading a book, and thought that he might grace me with his conversation regarding his thoughts on it. I listened patiently, and he invited me to share my own observations and when I did, I could see the consternation on his face suggesting he had no idea how to prove to me how intelligent he was. This is when the conversation took a random trajectory and he began sharing every obscure and irrelevant fact he had picked up while searching the library for the dustiest books in the collection just to have a niche piece of information he could be the resident expert on. I could tell he was an idiot, because he would frequently cite other authors and tell me what they said, rather than formulating his own thoughts on the matter. He used large words he clearly had no idea the meaning of, and mashed them together the way kids build forts from random scraps of wood. He would talk over me when I began speaking, wouldn't let me answer the questions he would ask, and then in the most arrogant way he could muster would try to tell me how worthwhile my pursuit was. Thanks douche, I was actually seeking your validation, that's why I was sitting alone and quietly writing notes in an isolated corner of the boat. Anyway, he got pissy and left finally when I let him know I wasn't gay (oddly enough, by smashing his phone against the table). A lesson to all of you who are patient with people: learn to tell em to fuck off. A lesson to those who pester people: fuck off.

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