Some people

If you don't know something about a topic then please try not to pass yourself off as someone who does. If you do and then get called on it don't further dig yourself in the hole and add the problem. We have a new (old) idiot at work. This guy is a blow hard who pretends to be the foremost expert on everything. He talks all the time about how big a racing fan he is, how he knows this about this and that about that. This exchange took place yesterday.

We have a bunch of t-shirts from when we did apparel up until last year. They are all either directly NASCAR shirts or shirts based on the car companies themselves. I needed some shirts for painting and figured I would pick some up. The idiot walked into the room right behind me, not more than 2 feet.

There are three piles of shirts, two different red piles and a blue pile. There is also a box of shirts. The different piles are the different race teams, blue for Ford, shade of red 1 for Chevy, shade of red 2 for Dodge. Simple things a NASCAR fan would know. The box of shirts are car specific shirts.

As I walk in (with the idiot behind me) the guy sorting the box says, holding up a shirt with a 2005 Mustang GT on it, "Trevor, you should get one of these it has a Mustang on it".

About 30 seconds later the idiot goes to leave, without any shirts but with a load of hangers. Another guy goes to the idiot "Idiot (well they used his name) aren't you going to get any shirts? I thought you liked racing"

Idiot says "Yeah I like racing I'm a huge Ford fan and there aren't any Ford shirts"

There is a huge pile of blue shirts which all racing fans know are Ford shirts. Plus someone was holding up a Mustang shirt and mentioned the Mustang shirt to me. At this point the idiot just looks a little bad but I figured I would pick on him.

I then say "Yeah, its not like Ford makes the Mustang or anything"

At this point the idiot should have just left it alone.

Idiot says and I'm not kidding, "Are you sure about that?"

Now sure he could be a smart ass but he was trying to fight back and not look so bad. Should have just left it alone.

I don't know the first thing about hockey other than it isn't fun to watch on TV but sure is fun to watch live. Other than Wayne Gretzky I probably couldn't pick out a hockey player. But I don't pretend to know anything about hockey. Don't pretend, in Charlotte of all places, to know anything about racing/cars and not know who makes the Mustang.