Stupid people should have to wear signs that just say, "I'm Stupid". That way you wouldn't rely on them, would you? You wouldn't ask them anything. It would be like, "Excuse me...oops, never mind. I didn't see your sign."
It's like before I moved from Kisumu to Mombasa. My hut was full of boxes and there was a G4S truck at the gate. My friend comes over and says "Hey, you moving?" "Nope. We just pack our stuff up once or twice a week to see how many boxes it takes. Here's your sign."
When we still kids back in the days, while growing in the bundus, we went hunting for pheasants (aluru) and hares with my buddies, we got back to the village, I lifted up this big 'ol sack of giant hares and several pheasants and this idiot on the at the village market goes, "Hey, y'all catch all them alurus and rabbits?" "Nope - Talked 'em into giving up. Here's your sign."
I was watching one of those animal shows on the Discovery Channel. There was a guy inventing a shark bite suit. And there's only one way to test it. "Alright Jimmy, you got that shark suit on, it looks good... They want you to jump into this pool of sharks, and you tell us if it hurts when they bite you." "Well, all right, but hold my sign. I don't wanna lose it."
I remember while working as a casual with the WFP. One day while in a convoy of those big trucks taking the food to Lokichogio we had a flat tire, the truck driver pulled his truck into this isolated Total petrol station just past Kapenguria on your to Ortum. The attendant walks out, looks at the truck, looks at the driver, and I SWEAR he said, "Tire go flat?" The driver said, "Nope. I was driving around and those other three just swelled right up on me. Here's your sign."
A buddy who is a car broker was trying to sell a car about a year ago. A guy came over to see him and drove the car around for about 45 minutes. He got back, he gets out of the car, reaches down and grabs the exhaust pipe, then says, "Darn that's hot!" See? If he'd been wearing his sign, I could have stopped him.
Back to the days of WFP. So another time we had these monster 24 wheeler trucks ferrying grub to the guys up north of our beautiful republic. Wouldn't ya know I misjudged the height of a bridge. So at the Ortum River bridge, there were some repair works going on hence there was a detour. Seems the 24 wheeler truck driver misoriented the truck and got stuck at the temporary bridge. We radioed in for help. Now a highway cop happened by. He start asking a slew of questions, ok... no problem. I thought sure he was clear of needing a sign... until he asked, "So... is your truck stuck?" I couldn't help myself! I looked at him, looked back at the rig and then back to him and said "no I'm delivering' a bridge... here's your sign."
