Stories of unsurpassed brillianceThis "Week" The suggestion comes from Kroney who muses
"Whilst I was passing through Miami airport at the tender age of 21, I fancied a beer. "ID" said the charming Southerner behind the desk, so I got out my passport and showed it to her.
"You have to be 21," she said. Now this confused me slightly as I had been 21 for several months by this point and my date of birth was staring her in my face.
"I am 21," I replied helpfully "it says so there, look"
"You have to be 21", she said getting angry.
Cut a long story short, I argued, the manager came out, I argued with him before I finally realised that they weren't looking at the date of birth at all. They were looking at the date of *issue*
That would have made me an annoyingly precocious four year old. What examples of unsurpassed mental genius have you experienced?"""""""
(, Mon 21 Nov 2016, 9:24)
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mad auntthere was always something not right with her, even before the dementia. she lost my 3-year-old sister in a busy shopping centre and, instead of finding help, left her there while she came home to tell my parents what had happened.
she had a marks & sparks carrier bag tacked to her wall for years because "it looks better than a picture, doesn't it?"
she had a shelf put up 3 inches above the skirting boards because she though her vase would look good there. oh, there was a chair in front of it, too.
yesterday, i was talking to her about a snake i had and, when i spoke about feeding it, she asked "so what did it eat? lettuce, that kind of stuff?"
she actually thought snakes were vegetarian.
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Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 10 Dec 2016, 17:31,
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Friend's mad sisterA friend's sister was similarly, er, 'unusual'.
She once went round the neighbourhood at night, collecting all the empty milk bottles (yes kids, the olden days), and put them all together "So they won't be lonely".
She also re-organised everything in my friend's house, by colour. So all red things were together (eg scissors, vase, toothbrush, suitcase, ketchup), all blue things, etc. Irrespective of function or what room they would 'traditionally' be in.
She also attempted suicide by jumping off the local pier — when the tide was out. She was stuck waist-deep in the mud, and the emergency services had to rush to pluck her out before the tide came back in.
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wowthat's a special kind of odd
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Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 15 Dec 2016, 16:53,
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It's an untreated mental illness, is what it is.(
monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 16 Dec 2016, 13:27,
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