shaun austin

People. Are. Dumb.

I’m sorry, but it’s true.

And I’m talking about the kind of dumb that we all seem to have, some just more obvious than others.  The kind of dumb that makes you push the big red button when you’re told if you do push it the world will end.

Or when you explain something 100 million bazillion times to someone in the nicest of tones and helpful manner, even expressing a glorious smile the whole time, and it’s clear that they understand it fully, and they come in the next day and ask you how to do it again even though you’ve showed them 100 million bazillion times.

Or when I say I don’t eat any meat, they still ask,

“But what about chicken? What about fish?”

I get that questions all the time from people.  It’s rather irritating.  Especially when people KNOW that I don’t eat meat, and haven’t for nearly a year now but yet they still ask ‘well what about chicken?’

I just want to slap these people.  Apparently there is some confusion as to what is considered ‘meat’.  I realized this a while ago.  It’s hard for some people to grasp common sense things.  Some prefer to call everything beef, poultry, etc instead of just “meat”.  So I began saying I simply don’t eat animal flesh / animal meat.  Apparently this was confusing too because people would ask me if I still ate chicken breasts, bacon etc.  Because you know.. “flesh is only the outer layer, like the skin…the innards are still OK right?”

Yes, that was a real response from someone.

So recently I’ve just been saying I don’t eat any animals, hoping that summarized it all up good enough for the dummies out there.

So today I was asked many questions regarding the whole vegetarian lifestyle, and even after explaining EVERYTHING to this person for nearly 15 minutes, and flat out saying many times “I don’t eat ANY animals or ANY part of ANY animal – EVER”, want to know what question I was asked in complete and total seriousness?

“But what about chicken?”