I just had the most mind bogglingly ridiculous conversation with my brother in law.
He was over visiting my husband and I. Now, bless his heart*, my BIL is not the sharpest tool in the shed. He's read a total of one book in his entire life, I kid you not- the biography of Charles Barkley if I'm not mistaken- and routinely avoids any sort of possibly nerdlike behavior that might take away from his strenuous routine of drinking and playing video games and not working. (He's my age, 34, by the way.)
DH casually asked him if he'd heard anything about e-cigarettes, presumably working up to announcing that I've quit the cloves and switched to one.
"Oh. Yes, I know all about those! They're way worse for you than real cigarettes," he announced.
Cue a matching pair of utterly mystified expressions from me and my husband:
"It's the water in them. You can't breathe any water, it'll kill you," he elaborated.
About then I started laughing helplessly. I mean, he *is* right- you can't breathe water, it'll kill you! If you're face down in a swimming pool, I guess....
So I patiently (yay me, I need that patience with him *frequently*) started explaining that no, the (non water based) vapor in an e-cigarette isn't in fact worse than tobacco smoke and water has nothing to do with it. His eyes instantly glazed over and he stopped listening pronto. I frequently fail to do the "polite girl" thing and blatant ignore idiocy in my vicinity, especially with my BIL, which annoys him to no end. Oh whoops. Sorry!
(I must admit after a long day of working with customers and *having* to bite my tongue around idiots, it's a bit harder to ignore stupid.)
"Oh. Well I guess the new ones might not be full of water." That was his brilliant conclusion.
I gave up and let him go back to fiddling with the Xbox, which I'm quite sure was his goal in the first place.
Anybody else got some good ones to share with the class?
*I learned this expression from an elderly Southern lady I worked with. Apparently, properly employed, you drop it in front of an insult to sound a little less snarky
He was over visiting my husband and I. Now, bless his heart*, my BIL is not the sharpest tool in the shed. He's read a total of one book in his entire life, I kid you not- the biography of Charles Barkley if I'm not mistaken- and routinely avoids any sort of possibly nerdlike behavior that might take away from his strenuous routine of drinking and playing video games and not working. (He's my age, 34, by the way.)
DH casually asked him if he'd heard anything about e-cigarettes, presumably working up to announcing that I've quit the cloves and switched to one.
"Oh. Yes, I know all about those! They're way worse for you than real cigarettes," he announced.
Cue a matching pair of utterly mystified expressions from me and my husband:
"It's the water in them. You can't breathe any water, it'll kill you," he elaborated.
About then I started laughing helplessly. I mean, he *is* right- you can't breathe water, it'll kill you! If you're face down in a swimming pool, I guess....
So I patiently (yay me, I need that patience with him *frequently*) started explaining that no, the (non water based) vapor in an e-cigarette isn't in fact worse than tobacco smoke and water has nothing to do with it. His eyes instantly glazed over and he stopped listening pronto. I frequently fail to do the "polite girl" thing and blatant ignore idiocy in my vicinity, especially with my BIL, which annoys him to no end. Oh whoops. Sorry!
(I must admit after a long day of working with customers and *having* to bite my tongue around idiots, it's a bit harder to ignore stupid.)"Oh. Well I guess the new ones might not be full of water." That was his brilliant conclusion.
I gave up and let him go back to fiddling with the Xbox, which I'm quite sure was his goal in the first place.Anybody else got some good ones to share with the class?
*I learned this expression from an elderly Southern lady I worked with. Apparently, properly employed, you drop it in front of an insult to sound a little less snarky
