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This is Paul's meal card photo, but it works.
Paul: Um, he's an idiot. But I'm getting ahead of myself. He occupies the
other room across the common area from me, and lives in a double-size room alone.
His major is something about plants, which I know because he makes all sorts of
"art" and displays it in the common area. Things like stringing a bunch of sticks
into an upside-down T-shape. Meh. Don't know what year he is, but he's been at
Stenner for at least two years, maybe more. But back to my original point.
He's an idiot. He really is. I'm not comparing him to me, I'm making judegments
based on what he says and does. First, he often drinks and gets high, which
doesn't make him that bad by itself. But he has noticably brain damage from those
hobbies, or more likely some catastrophic infant-dropping incident. The words
that come out of this guy don't form coherent thoughts. He's not clinically
deficient in any way, it's just that he couldn't hold a logical argument if you
glued it to his hands. Actual conversation:
Brandon: The war on terror is kinda like World War 2...
Paul: Dude, we shouldn't have been in that war, either. Bush was screwing
up back then, too. He and all those republicans are just a bunch of [expletive]
Nazi-loving [series of expletives]...
Brandon: Bush wasn't around in WWII.
Paul: Yeah, but his...granddaddy or daddy or someone was!
Other fine examples include:
Brandon: Do you agree that 2+2=4?
Paul: No, man. Why should I believe anything you say? You're just judging me
and nothing I say can ever be right. I guess it's because you're Christian...(etc)
Brandon: (explains that his viewpoint and Paul's differed on a certain subject)
Paul: No, it's not that, we just don't see anything the same way.
Brandon: That's all I said. We just look at this in two different ways.
Paul: Dude, you're just a better rhetoritician (person skilled at conversation)
than I am. No matter what I say I can't win, so why should I even have this conversation?
You're just gonna beat me no matter what. This is why I hate having conversations.
It's like the things other people say don't get processed after hearing them, and the
things he says often don't follow logically from what he was saying immediately before.
It's like speaking only every 6th thought and not taking feedback. Also, you'll
notice that the examples were all Brandon talking, none of me.
That's because I really find it tiresome to deal with him. You could explain
physics to a 5-year old and get better results than trying to get this guy to string
to successive thoughts together to support anything he says, much less stay on topic.
Anyway, that's Paul. He's really only in here so you can see him in case I have any more
wonderful verbal exchanges to relay to you.
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