If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room
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If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room
This is quite bad news for clever people.
it’s not great for the rest of us, either. This means at least one person in every room is in the wrong place. NO WONDER WE ARE ALL SO CONFUSED.
It will also be disappointing for teachers, since it implies all of them are in the wrong room, all the time. A teacher either (i) is the smartest person in the room, and ergo is in the wrong room, or is not the smartest person in the room, in which case she is meant to be teaching at people at least some of whom are smarter than she is, meaning by usually standards in modern education, she is in the wrong room.
It also means lavatory cubicles are just wrong, on principle.[1]
The epistemological chain reaction goes yet further.
I have just had an argument with my daughter about who should leave the kitchen. Eventually we agreed she should go. But, dilemma! The minute she left I became the smartest person in the kitchen, so I had to leave too. I joined her in the laundry.
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING, DAD?" she is yelling at me. "Now I have to leave the laundry, too."
Firstly, being the stupider one I don’t see how I was meant to know this? Secondly, I don't think she was allowed in there by herself in the first place, but her presence at least gave me some cover.
But as soon as she left I had to leave as well.
This was getting really annoying for both of us traipsing around the house going in and out of all the rooms happily we have worked out what to do. (It was my daughter’s idea. She’s the smart one. Finally, we can sit down.
As luck would have it, it is quite a mild evening for December, though it looks like it might rain.
And I need the loo.
- ↑ There may be an exception for those high tech self-flushing ones you find in Japan, for uncommonly dull people.