We had a real smart fellow, “Mr. Geek,” stay with us recently. He was geek smart, but not socially smart. He could tell you anything about computers and programming and software, but he just wasn’t quite there when it came to social interaction.
When someone at the bar asked him where he was from, he proudly said “Char-Lanta.” Well, the guy doing the asking didn’t know where that was, and Mr. Geek told him he was dumb for not knowing about the Raleigh-Durham / Charlotte / Atlanta mega-region corridor.
Fortunately, this did not lead to any fighting…but it could have. We all breathed a sigh of relief when Mr. Geek left the next morning.