{"id":9104,"date":"2012-10-17T22:25:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T06:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=9104"},"modified":"2012-10-17T22:26:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T06:26:02","slug":"mr-know-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/mr-know-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Know-it-all"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had lunch today at an Indian restaurant where my friend and I were regaled by the wisdom of a guy I’ll call Mr. Know-it-all.<\/p>\n

Mr. Know-it-all (see above) is one of those guys who knows everything. And I mean everything. He reminded me very much of my friend’s ex-husband, who also knew everything. The ex-husband once insisted on telling me something about screenplays, even though I had been reading them professionally for ten years.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Mr. Know-it-all had one of the cooks in his thrall, at one point telling the man something about India, the cook’s birthplace. The cook managed to say “India is a place of great diversity” before Mr. Know-it-all ceded the point and moved on to the subject of Pakistan. In his authoritative monologue, Mr. Know-it-all held forth about the economy,\u00a0manufacturing, Russia, the\u00a0Rockefellers, the Carnagies, Fidel Castro, Israel, Iran, and my personal favorite, where to get the best bagels in China.<\/p>\n

Why do these people exist? Why are they always men?<\/p>\n

I have to admit I was fascinated by Mr. Know-it-all, and had to fight an urge to interact with him, just to make him spew forth more\u00a0information. I suggested to my friend that she offer to marry him, since she’s had so much experience for the\u00a0position. Sadly, she gave it a pass. We may never know the full scope of his knowledge.<\/p>\n

The food was great, though.<\/p>\n

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