Thursday, October 04, 2007

Audiological Trauma

Psychologists speak about how when someone experiences something traumatic and damaging that the best thing he/she can do is to talk about it.

I simply cannot hold it in anymore. My ears are constantly polluted by conversations at work that literally hurt my brain to hear - yes, they are that stupid. So, I find it my responsibility, in promoting self-health, to share the idiotic abuse my mind is subject to daily.

The following are exact quotes from real life from a real human. How this person has made it this far in the world without being punched, laughed at, smacked up the head and ridiculed, I have no idea. And it may not be much longer, either. America, this is one of your daughters:

In a discussion as others share about having bad eyesight:
"I have great eyes, and I have great teeth. I am yet to find my bad gene."
Ryan thinks she should check her "brain gene".

As a coworker came up to chat with her:
"Oh, you were so quiet!"
"Yeah, I try to be quiet as my voice tends to carry."
"Oh, I never care about that!"
Yes, we know.

Fear not, there will be more. I guarantee that by the end of the day, yet another earth-shatteringly stupid thing will escape from her mouth. The thing that stuns me is that I don't think she actually understands how obtrusively offensive she really is. I wonder if its her hearing that is bad. No, it's definetely the brain.

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