Why Waste Your Time and Mine?

The pirate speaks.

How many times are you asked for "your thoughts"? Seems to happen all of the time to me. Now, before you think that I am A)bragging or B) really smart; this pirate learned (and frequently, due to ego issues, has to relearn) that the questioneer often times is really only looking for some type of validation of what they already believe - or they are testing me to see if "I am as smart as they are".

In other words, they don't truly want to know my thoughts as a lamp upon their walkway to enlightenment... they want to know if I am in their camp or they want to pat themselves on the back for their own brilliance. Either way, their inquiry becomes a waste of the few synapses I have left to utilize.

Not to put too fine of a point on in it, but... when people ask me for, "my opinion", here is my answer, "My thoughts are far too vast and complex for comprehension by mere mortals such as yourself."

Arrogant? Probably. Appropriate? Absolutely.