Clever is NOT the word I'd use.....

I come across people who think themselves to be rather clever, but the reality is, they fall quite short of clever. You know them. They're the people who show up somewhere and everybody rolls their eyes. They are the ones who quote the same movie lines over and over and over and over, they laugh at their own jokes a little too much and a little too hard, they are self important and try to prove how cool they are, no one really knows why they hang out with these people or how they came to be a part of the "crew", and nobody really wants them around.

They think they know everything and even when confronted, they continue to talk out of their asses, even when they're PROVEN wrong, they will continue to try and support (life support....) their arguments even though no one is listening any more. They repeat their same point over and over again, trying to convince others and themselves how right they are, and the only way to get them to shut the fuck up is to agree with them, turning them into an even BIGGER pompous ass. They throw temper tantrums when they don't get their way, and drama ALWAYS seems to follow them around. They are the gray skies on what would otherwise be a bright, happy, sunshine-y day.

They always feel like they have to prove their worth by bragging about things that they don't have, can't do, haven't really accomplished. They try to be witty and clever by spewing out someone else's ideas or something that they heard somewhere, VERBATIM, and try to pass it off as their own even though everyone knows it wasn't. They are the ones who are basically having a conversation with themselves because they don't listen to what someone else is saying because they've already thought about what they're going to say next and that's all they're thinking about. Not processing or hearing the other side of the conversation at all.

I once thought that they should all get together and hang out with each other, but then I thought, "You know what? The universe might implode or something because I don't think having all that ass hattery in one place is a good thing...." That's probably the reason why they are dispersed the way they are. Damn....