You doing ok at home IHman? A long time ago I was dating this chick who had a roommate with a much better rack than her. So one day I was over at their apartment trying to strategize how I could go about upgrading to the roommate, which I never managed to pull off. Anyway, trying to gain some insight I picked up a text book that was on the coffee table, turns out the one with the good high beams was a psychology major. Or maybe psychiatry. I never can remember which is which. So I pick up this text book and flip through it thinking I’ll impress this chick somehow and maybe she’ll be overcome with lust or something. And I read about people who seek validation by trying to demonstrate their superior knowledge and intellect over random people. As fate would have it, these people are commonly considered to be assholes. However, according to this textbook sitting on this chicks coffee table back sometime around aught-three or four, a lot of these assholes only act the way they do because of dissatisfaction in their personal lives. Like if they grew up with a sibling that was smarter and more likable than they were, so their parents just ignored the asshole kid. Or if they’ve got a wife that just ignores them and spends money on stupid shit and the asshole has to listen to his wife and mother in law talk about how she should have married some other more successful guy instead of the asshole. Stuff like that. So these assholes would just go around trying to prove their superiority in whatever aspect of their life they thought they could as a way of compensating for all the failure and disappointment in their personal lives.
Anyway. IHman. We can’t help but notice, because you won’t let us ignore, what an asshole you are about your belief that nobody but you has ever touched a piece of equipment before. And because of that chick with the good highbeams twenty years ago, I am able to recognize this as a cry for help. A cry for help that probably went unnoticed back when you just metaphorically rubbed your nuts all over snowplow guys. But here at the IBB we care about people and their problems. So, IHman, tell us what’s wrong. We are here to listen.
