Common Sense...Not All That Common

So I have this friend. She is 36 years old and just about the most intelligent person I have ever met. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from undergraduate school and Summa Cum Laude from graduate school. She is now working on her doctorate in Psychology at a prestigious university. She is a wealth of information and can regurgitate just about every piece of information she has ever read. It is truly amazing and very interesting if you don't want to waste your time reading the Encyclopedia Britannica. But there is one problem...she does not have a single ounce of common sense anywhere in her entire body. I'm not kidding. It's painful to watch. Now, don't get me wrong, I love her dearly and am thankful for her friendship, but good Lord, it is amazing she has made it to age 36. She is exactly the kind of person who would drive head-on into the ocean if her GPS told her to.

Have you ever heard of the Darwin Awards? They are awards given to those unfortunate souls who commit the most outrageous acts of stupidity, resulting in their deaths. As they put it, the Darwin Awards salute the improvement of the human gene pool by removing themselves from it. For example, there was the man who was trying to fire his 18th Century muzzle loader that he had packed with the appropriate amount of gun powder. When it didn't fire, he used a match to look down the barrel and see if it was clogged. Or the man who decided to trim his own trees and rented a large wood chipper from the local rental center. He parked the chipper under the tree and turned it on full blast, thinking it would save time to saw the branches off and drop them straight into the chipper. It was a great idea until he climbed up above the chipper and slipped off the ladder. Or the two guys in Minnesota who decided to play a little game of Russian Roulette...with a semi-automatic weapon.

The scary thing is that I have no doubt that one day my friend will be a nominee for the Darwin Awards. Her lack of common sense will catch up with her. It has to. People just can't go through life without common sense. Can they?