Flipping People, Honestly
Sayings really get on my nerves sometimes. I mean, I know all countries have them and they’re just part of culture and all that (like the yellow bum bag in Germany), but seriously, would it hurt those who invented them to have given it a little bit of thought first before they opened their big fat mouths?
There are many ridiculous sayings out there, but one I have grown to love to mock has to be “it’s all smoke and mirrors”.
Recently I brought this up with a friend and he said, “so what’s your point then?”
I looked at him with disgust.
“Obvious, isn’t it?” I said. “Come on, think about it!”
He said, “er–”
“Allow me to make it perfectly plain,” I told him, “smokes already good enough on its own, isn’t it? I mean that’s tough enough to see through, so why add the mirrors? That just seems ridiculous.”
He looked confused.
“Right. So listen–"He stopped staring for a moment, allowing me to sense a change in atmosphere I suppose, and see how serious he was. “Are you alright, I mean, mentally?”
Outrage exploded out of me, thus proving his point, but I couldn’t help it, he knew not to question me when it came to sayings.
“I’m fine!” I said, “but I’m not the weird one, it’s the people who invented the sayings who need help!”
I could bore you with details, but the crux of it is this: we conducted a test with smoke and mirrors, to see if having mirrors as well as smoke made it any more confusing.
I was right, of course. You couldn’t even see the mirrors with all that smoke. I couldn’t breathe for about half an hour after we came out of that smoke-filled room for that matter.