People in my neighborhood

I left work early today because it was so very cold. The heat wasn't working right in the trailer, and though I had three space heaters in my office, it was still only about 56F. One of the guys in the other trailer went out and dug the third space heater out of a warehouse, because I usually only have two, and he felt bad for me. I love the guys at my job.

But then, I don't know them very well. And that's probably for the best. If there's one thing I've learned here on lj, is that often people you like when you meet them and chat socially, can turn out to be Hidden Idiots when given a public soapbox from which to air the meanderings of their interesting little minds. No, not you, friends of my friends list. You are on my friends list because I find you uniformly entertaining, and not just in the "Oh man, you won't believe what Ted did *this* time" kind of way. Well, some of you are like that too. But mainly, it's the other people I know, mostly only socially...the people about whom I've said, "Oh yeah, X is a really nice person, I like talking to him/her". And then they get on lj and I'm all like, "What? And you what?" And then when I meet them in public I smile, and then sidle away...because I now know they are Hidden Idiots.

Then again, maybe that's the beauty of lj, being able to out your Hidden Idiot side in semi-public. Maybe it's liberating, the freedom. Then again, who was it that said it is better to be believed to be ignorant, than to open your mouth and prove you are? Wilde? Someone smarter than me, certianly.

Hm. Am I being an idiot now? I'm sure someone will tell me if I am....