people...

you know how you can come across someone in your life that seems fairly normal and then you realize their far from it. i actually prefer not to use the word normal, because it is so relative and changes with people perceptions of what may or may not be normal to them. so lets use the word intelligent. you meet someone who at first seems intelligent enough, and then every single time you see this person they manage to amaze you again... and not "pulitzer prize winning" amaze you, more like "rides the short bus" amaze you. you are then forced to wonder how they have managed to deceive so many people to get where they are in their current positions. unfortunately, i have come across more than i care to discuss over my lifetime (which isn't a terribly long one yet), however there is one in particular today that began to stick in my mind like a splinter all day. how is it that people are so deceived by the appearance or facade that one can envelope themselves in? they pass themselves off as regular folks but they are clueless in more ways than one.