Very Idiotic Persons

These days I'm busy in a high intensity training programme for a certification in skilled language teaching. My day is spent in close company with a lot of men and women ranging from the twenties to the forties. We all work under a lot of pressure and are under the scanner constantly. But, being the inherant 'people observer' that I am, I can't stop noticing the number of oddballs that are in the group. In fact, I'm beginning to think that it's the age that we live in. There's something in today's air, water or sunlight that breeds weirdos. Why aren't people straightforward anymore? Everybody is trying to outdo each other. Everybody wants to speak whether they have anything important to say or not. And everybody has an extremely high opinion of themselves! Move over Obama, Manmohan and all the other VIPS. The man on the road today is the VVIP. And he has no time for niceties. If he is boarding the metro, he'll bulldoze his way in. If you want to get off- it's your fault. Why the hell did you board it in the first place? If you are standing in a queue, he'll break it with happy abandon. Foolish people stand in queues. If he/she's giving a presentation, you better have nice things to say even if she blundered her way through it and looked like the biggest fool on earth with IQ in double digits. The list is endless. I think I shall retire to my corner with a Douglas Adams book. The earth really needs to be blown up to make way for an intergalactic highway.