Ok so I have to put this out there. In this day and age, with technology giving us endless information at the tips of our fingers, why is it that people can still be so ignorant and stupid. So if you have been reading my blog you know that just this week I had to tell someone about having herpes, which I refer to as “the H” or “Hugo”) and he freaked out. As upset as I was about his reaction, the last couple of days I have realized that his ignorance has pissed me off. So yesterday I get a call on my cell from a blocked number. I don’t answer them normally, and this time I didn’t. But a few seconds later it rang again. Now there are only two people who would do that, the man I told or my husband who shall be identified from now on and forever as DB for douche-bag. Being that my DB does not have my new cell for this very reason, it was the man I told.
He starts off the phone call by telling me he needs to ask me a favor. I kinda snickered to myself (thinking this boy has got to have lost his mind) and asked him what he wanted. He asked for a couple hundred dollars! I laughed my ass off at him, and told him no. So then he gets down to the real reason for his call. He wanted to know symptoms of the H. So I start telling him some off the top of my head. The boy tells me that he doesn’t want to kiss anyone especially his neices/nephews because he might have it. I was like look, we used protection and he wouldn’t have gotten it from kissing me. He says that he checks his lips 3-4 times a day because he is so scared that he “caught” it from me. He said his lip was “like swollen 3-4 times its size.” I was thinking, its cuz you keep checking it for bumps and crap. Then he said he was acting funny with people because he is all worried about it. He said when his girl friends come to visit him he acts even funnier because he doesn’t want them to be attracted to him. I asked him why and he said “what if?” I told him that 50% of people have it and not even know it, and that it can be dormant for years before a break out occurs, and even that there are some things that can make a person test positive for herpes on a blood test that really are not herpes. He was like “well google it and tell me all the symptoms and stuff.” I was like are you serious? Can’t you do it yourself? He said he didn’t have internet and I told him to go to a library then. I told him that the only way he would have it is if I had a breakout and we had sex, since I had no breakout and we used protection this is not the case. Needless to say, 15-20 minutes later of apologizing, snickering, and talking to him to calm him down later the call was ended.
Ok so first of all how can someone not have internet access or even know how to use the internet to find the information he needs. Its not like he is older of the older generation and doesn’t know how to use a computer let alone the internet. He just turned 24 this past month. I can understand that he don’t have the internet because he just moved back this past month, but he could use a friends or families, or go to the library. This is just ridiculous.
Second of all, how can you call me and ask me all this ridiculous crap without researching it and after you had told me to not call or text you anymore. I can understand having to explain somethings to him, but I can only tolerate stupidity so much. I mean I was dumbing it down for him and he still needed simple words explained. I can’t remember what word it was that he was asking me to clarify, but it meant “opinion.” Come on! Me and my girlfriend were laughing about that. I mean come on, can’t you get yourself educated a bit.
Ok so now that I have vented that and laughed about it, I can let my anger go and let the limitless black hole we call the internet swoop it up and take it away.
