[ExI] no good deed goes unpunished

[ilsa]

Crap like that happens to me everyday you know being of a high potential
intelligence makes the world a creepy movie and now that we have a
republican leadership stupid people are coming out from under the rocks I'm
so glad I'm old so I won't have to live through the world that is filled
with people who can't move up 12 in

Ilsa Bartlett
Institute for Rewiring the System
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"Don't ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to
every other person."
-John Coltrane

On Sat, Sep 20, 2025, 2:58 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> No particular significance, only a word to the wise: don’t do it.
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> I filled my chariot with petroleum, decided to use their automated
> drive-thru car wash.  Got in line, four cars ahead of me.  A yahoo pulled
> in there a little too far.  The machine suggests BACK UP waits two seconds
> BACK UP two seconds  BACK UP...
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> The fool sat there doing nothing, while the machine flatly refused to
> start up, with the Detroit product too far forward, the machine “knowing”
> it can’t get around front with its whirly brushes to the front of the car.
> I will not do the job wrong, it will opt to do nothing until the goofball
> carries out its insistent suggestion: so BACK UP.
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> The human operator sat there for about two minutes doing nothing at all,
> during which I made a Yoda-like observation, slightly modified:  The Dumb
> is strong in this one.
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> A possible explanation: the operator was profoundly deaf.  There is no law
> against driving deaf, or even stupid for that matter, so long as the latter
> affliction is not so severe as to prevent passing a simple written test at
> the DMV.
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> Then I saw the backup lights come on.  But the brake lights never went
> off, and of course there was no motion nor change in the attitude of the
> insistent carwash machine.  Another minute went by before I concluded it
> was time for a prole to see if he could help.  I got out, walked up to the
> driver, who I noted was female, with headwear from the Middle East.  I
> smiled and motioned toward the stern.  She could see I meant to assist.
> She THEN let off a little on the brake, and her ride drifted back about a
> foot, at which time, the carwash machine was satisfied it could do its job,
> cheerfully and enthusiastically went into its pre-wash cycle.
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> With this sudden and startling development, I made a hasty egress, a bit
> wetter and soapier than I had anticipated perhaps, under the amused gaze of
> three other drivers who witnessed the Three Stooges routine with the other
> two missing, at which time I had the option of standing out there until I
> dried or getting back into my own conveyance, on my leather seats.
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> Sigh.
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> In any case, if you are one who amuses yourself with New of the Weird, and
> see a story from the point of view of the three carwash customers ahead of
> me plus two others who had pulled in behind, you will know the likely
> origin of the incident.  On a lighter note, I did manage to escape the
> whirly brushes, for had those managed to trap me in there, a bad day could
> have become far worse (YAAAAAAH Boom (Hey what happened to that skinny
> geezer, he was just there a few seconds ago.))
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> If you read Arabic and they have a site called Infidels Are Soooo Stupid,
> you will know who is that hapless prole who only wanted to help, resulting
> in slippery consequences.
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