Sunday, July 29, 2007

Is it wrong to be wrong?

The following is yet another conversation I overheard while wandering the city looking for plastic bottles and cardboard boxes I can sell for some money to buy pirated DVDs:

"What's the answer for 1 + 1?"
"3."
"Wrong. Try again."
"Um...4?"
"No!"

*piak*

"What do I send you to school for??? Huh?? Tell me!!!"
"..."
"What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?"
"..."
"I didn't send you to school to become stupid. You can't even give me the answer for 1 + 1!"
"I told you the answer!"
"What?!"
"I said I told you the answer..."
"I asked you what is 1 + 1. You said 3, then you said 4."
"That's right."
"No, that's wrong!!!"
"What's wrong with wrong?"
"What?"
"Is it wrong to be wrong?"
"What?"
"I said, is it wrong to be wrong?"
"What?"
"What is wrong."
"What??? What is wrong?? What are you talking about?"
"Sorry, what what is wrong what are you talking about is wrong too. Try again."
"What?"
"Can't you answer a simple question? I said what is wrong."
"What do you mean what is wrong???"
"What do you mean what is wrong is wrong too."

I might be wrong --- and I'm often wrong --- but I think the moral of this conversation is this: do not be so sure of someone else's shortcomings when you yourself are full of these same shortcomings. gabish?

6 comments:

RagnaParadise said...

OI. "1+1 is 3" is my line. D:

earthquakeduck said...

1 + 1 is 3 is not my line. 1 + 1 is 2. don't they teach you anything in school?

Anonymous said...

haha 1+1 is never 3

earthquakeduck said...

now that's an interesting equation. but what's haha 1 + 2 hahaha?

SaraAmelia said...

"If every point of the universe was infinity.. and infinity fills every point- then 1 + 1 is infinity," Alex, my 10 yr old brother has been saying that line since he was 6?

earthquakeduck said...

what's your point?