Why, oh why do I have such a limit of patience for posers?  I’m really a pretty moderate guy.  I tend to let things go and not dwell on them.  But when someone is really in my face about things that I know about, it gets under my skin.  Especially when it’s obvious that they don’t have a damn clue what they’re talking about.

You probably know that I’m a computer guy.  I’ll blow my own horn for a second here and say I’m a damn good computer guy.  So when someone comes up to me presenting themselves as computer guys, I have a certain level of expectation.  I expect that they can do certain things.  I understand that everyone has specialities, but when you label yourself a “computer guy”, I expect that you should be able to get pictures off your phone.

The situation I’m faced with at the moment is this doofus sitting next to me.  He’ claiming to be the end-all be-all of computer guys.  I’m not sure why he feels so qualified.  I guess he probably installed MS-Word on his computer all by himself.  Whatever.

He got all up in my face about how much he LOVES Android and HATES iPhones.  He lauded how great the interface of Android is and how bad working with iPhones is.  Huh?

I should have known better, but I asked him why he felt that way.  He went into how impossible it was to get pictures out of the iPhone so that they could be imported into a Word document.  Again, I say… huh?  He went on to talk about how after searching the internet for hours and hours, he finally found them in an encrypted directory (or some other bullshit… this dude has no idea what he’s talking about).  It was at this point I wrote him off as a 100% pure poser.

The worst part is that I’m stuck with him for another 10 hours.  <sigh/>

Give me strength.