<div dir="auto"><div>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</div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#ffffff"><font color="#ff0000">Ilsa Bartlett</font></font><div><font color="#ffffff"><font color="#ff0000"><font color="#3333ff">Institute for Rewiring the System</font></font></font><br><a href="http://ilsabartlett.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://ilsabartlett.wordpress.com</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.google.com/profiles/ilsa.bartlett" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/profiles/ilsa.bartlett</a><br><a href="http://www.hotlux.com/angel.htm" target="_blank">www.hotlux.com/angel</a><br><br>"Don't ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person."<br>-John Coltrane</div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 20, 2025, 2:58 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_9105071271383580735WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">No particular significance, only a word to the wise: don’t do it.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">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... <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sigh.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">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.))<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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