the answer to the question is.....

ok, so i'm a snob. i get pissed off when people are dumb. plain unintelligently dumb. not like duh...! dumb, but dumb as in irrelevant, pointless, incomprehensible dumb. see my example.

i texted him: is last thur's document with you or the office?

to which he replied: i am in the office.

what the !??! please, pray tell, how does that answer my question? irritates the hell out of me and begs for the quick retort, "i'm asking about the document, not you. don't care where you are", doesn't it? to which i did not execute. i am much too nice.

i am in the office. how does that relate to my question?

a. the document is not with me, but i am in the office, i will check
b. the document is not with me, but i will get it from the office.
c. the document is with me, but i can't give you because i am in the office
d. i don't know where the document is but i know where i am; in the office
e. i am an idiot, but at least i know i am in the office
f. who cares about your document, i am in the office.
g. if my wife ask, i am in the office. not in the shopping centre with my girlfriend.
h. this is an automated text reply. i am in the office.


the interpretation can be a thousandfold, limitless even in your imagination. but the reply is one that definitely does not answer the question. arggghhhhh! if i were a teacher and i asked this student to write a composition about his hobby, i think he will write pages after pages detailing about apples, rocket science, the beginning of man and the upcoming game between barcelona and man u even, to which i will scribble a red big fat IRRELEVANT across his essay and give him a satisfying F.

i take a breath, and i hope, i pray even that the document will appear in my hand, magically, at the end of the day. i don't want to know where he is or how it came about.