Am I Stupid?

Welcome to the Silverhorn! How are you?
Well, yesterday I asked you to name Pam Anderson's talent without mentioning her breasts....so far nobody has come up with anything.....I guess we better drop that one, no point wasting our breasts...I mean breath...I mean time.

Veteran members of the Silverhorn know that we like to educate and inform here at the Lodge and whenever we come up with something we always pass it on to our readers. Several readers have suggested I might have just a little too much time on my hands...(obviously they are unaware that I write this foolishness in the middle of the night). So, speaking of time, I was sitting here researching on your behalf as usual, and I have discovered that this Wednesday at 2 minutes and 3 seconds after 1:00 a.m. it will be 01:02:03 04/05/06......if you say that out loud it reads 1 2 3 4 5 6...duh. I suggest you stay up on Wednesday night and try it...

One of the members dropped in on us here at the Lodge the other night and it got me to thinking, and you know that can't be good. I was wondering, do slow people know they are slow? Now, before all the bleeding hearts get yapping, I am not talking about medically proven mentally challenged people, they are under a doctor's care etc. I am talking about people out walking around with jobs and cars and families and all that stuff, but they are still stupid. I bet you can even name a couple.(dozen)

This has been bugging me for some time, and I just got around to thinking about it....What if, after all, it turns out I am stupid...will I know? Not just because someone might tell me, that doesn't prove much, they might just be jealous, but what if I really am? Nobody is going to come out and tell a slow person they are slow....It is entirely possible that I could be going through life stupid, and never know....I doubt that my wife is going to tell me I am stupid...(no wait....bad example), I doubt my parents or my friends are gonna tell me (oops....another bad example). OK, total strangers won't tell me, but they could be just whispering about it behind my back and silently shaking their heads, and I am too stupid to look over my shoulder.

This could be quite life changing, perhaps for the better. The realization of stupidity is probably one of A.Maslows theories of self actualization....oh boy...way, way, waaaay to deep for this crowd......Anyway, it would explain a lot and ultimately help a person understand stuff. (It's good to understand 'stuff')

So we are going to leave the safety tips aside tonight, and just ask you to be careful until we get back to them. Instead we have come up with some 'signs I might be stupid'....see if they apply, but I am going to warn you, there isn't much you can do about it. So here are some examples, see if they apply to you....

You have just finished tuning up your truck and upon starting it, the muffler blows up. You paint one side of the house red with white trim, then get confused and paint the other side white with red trim and although you know something is wrong you can't quite figure out what....You jump into the canoe with a big push and realize the paddles are still in the boathouse, or, while camping 200 miles from home you decide the safest place for both sets of your car keys is locked in the car, or....you tie wooden latice work to the roof of your car and try to drive 110 kilometers per hour on the highway...(who knew it break off and fly like that?) you take the plug out of the stern of your boat to drain the rainwater...while the boat is in the water tied to the wharf, and then you go away for a few days.....and this stupid sign that some of the male Silverhorners will identify with, after you finally talk your wife into posing for some sexy 'boudoir' photos you happen to mention that she looks to be gaining a little weight...

Take a few moments today and just think about it...ask yourself, "Am I stupid?" I'm thinking that if you are stupid, you won't know it, you will say, "Nah..I'm not stupid..." On the other hand, if you do have a moment of self actualization (never mind, it just means you know something about yourself) I want you to say the following out loud: "Geez.. I am really stupid!!" Trust me, you will feel much better and everyone around you will either laugh or breath a sigh of relief that you have figured it out......