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Why is there always an asshole in the group?

   I am taking a renewable energy class at GMac with a group of about thirty people, alleged adults.  It never ceases to astound me that when you get a group of people together, one person stands out as the biggest asshole, without question.  It is easy to pick out the asshole.  He/she knows everything, wants to show everyone he/she knows everything, knows nothing, tries incessantly hard to be funny and entertain the group, and by and large shows what an asshole he/she is in an almost nonstop manner.  Whether it is interrupting to ask stupid questions, or  ask questions to show his/her brilliance, to walking around like some fucking peacock, to blowing his/her nose loudly, eating and drinking loudly and other incredibly asinine ways to get people to look at them. 

   In this class there is one guy who is the obvious asshole.  By the end of the first class, I would have liked to kill him.  He asked at least a hundred questions, always interrupting the instructor.  He asks stupid questions that even I know the answer to and I know Jack Shit!  He tells the class his life story, when asked to tell about his experience concerning renewable energy.  Of coarse he is out of work and looking to maybe start a career in Photovoltaics.   

Apparently he fell off a roof (I am  betting that one of his co-workers pushed him), so he couldn't sit down.  This gave him reason to walk around, lean against the wall, shuffle chairs, get  coffee, eat chips, generally fuck around while he was supposed to be learning something new.  And all the while he was interrupting with his 'opinions' and asinine questions. What a fucking nob! Just shut up!  JUST SHUT UP!

   I have a hard enough time concentrating and now I got some guy grinding my gears and annoying me.  I am easily distracted at the best of time and here this fucking clown is begging me to look at him and here's me only able to concentrate on wanting to stick a fork in his eye, instead of learning what I came to learn.

   At university, in a history class, there was this 'asshole' who throughout the term continuously made dumb-assed comments, trying to be clever and witty.  The professor, an old American prof; finally got pissed off and shouted at him, "Mr. Smith, will you shut up?"  It was wonderful.  Blabbermouth didn't open his yap again for the rest of the term.  I hope the prof flunked the jack-ass.

   That is exactly what I wanted to yell at Mr. Roofing.  I don't understand why he doesn't just bring a can of lighter fluid and a pack of matches to set himself on fire so that everyone will look at him.  I will volunteer to help if he needs it. 

     

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    On Thursday, we changed from having homemade pizza to homemade burgers and fries.  MDW enjoys making french fries in our fry maker, which deep fries the spuds using only one tablespoon of oil.  It is fantastic.  The fries are crunchy, golden brown and delicious - and only one tablespoon of oil.  You can not beat that.  She made veggie burgers and although beef burgers would always be better, the veggie burgers are healthier.  

   Friday night was a stayed at home and had Spicy Thai chicken.  We had this because some retired idiot forgot to take out the pizza dough and pepperoni from the freezer.  Oh, well.  I really like the spicy chicken dish.  MDW also made Pad Thai, an excellent combination of noodles, veggies, and shrimp.  She topped it off with Thai rice.  Although I was sorely disappointed about not having pizza, the spicy chicken and Pad Tai was great.  

     Saturday we will go out to celebrate my 56th birthday.  Happy birthday to me!  I have noticed all of you blog followers haven't sent your grifts yet… I'm waiting!