I'm Only 4% Stupid After All

Neil: Brooke, just to prove you wrong from your last post -- that you are not a stupid girl -- here is a quiz titled "Are You Stupid?" I guarantee at the end you will see that you are not as stupid as you suggest.

Last night I got this instant message from the famous Neil, of Citizen of the Month, no doubt the most popular and prolific blogger in the blogosphere. How he finds the time to worry about me I don't know. He also told me that he stole two of my readers, so the worry may have really been guilt...

We both thought that the quiz looked fun and silly, so Neil decided to take it too. It turned out to be a bit harder than we thought. Neil even tried to cheat off me several times, but I would have none of it. I actually did quite well as you can see.

Neil never did tell me what his score was. And while I would normally take this opportunity to make fun of him for this, he was too nice to me to allow myself that sort of indulgence. Either way, he made me feel a lot less stupid. Yay!

So I have come to the conclusion that I am not stupid! It's the boys that are stupid!

Neil not included.

Stupid Girl

OK then. I got a few emails about some of the things I said in my last post from people who actually read the answers. Actually one of the things I said. About a man. You read that right, a man. Yes, there was a man that I have not mentioned here on my blog. Actually I did mention him here, but I didn't tell anyone that I did get back with him again. When things started unraveling and I realized that he hadn't changed, I mentioned it here, but nobody asked me for details and I didn't offer any up. There is a perfectly good reason for this. If any of my real friends knew I had given him another chance, they'd have beaten me with hammers (and real hammers too, not those little plastic ones that make those cute squeaky noises.) In fact, I never mentioned it to a single soul, which shows how much confidence I had in the relationship working out.

To be fair, I didn't expect us to live happily ever after. I knew he was a commitment-phobe from when I went out with him before, but we always had a certain rapport. It was nice to be able to fall back into something comfortable and familiar when I was going through so much stress in my life - mom in hospital, work pressures, trying to work out the next move in my life, blah blah blah. I know, it's crap. I have nobody to blame but myself because I am a gullible and stupid girl who forgives and forgets far too easily. And rather than write another 10 paragraphs about what happened between us, I thought I'd write a little ditty about it instead. So may I present - my first song -

Stupid Girl
lyrics: The Babbling Brooke
music: The Ballad of Jed Clampett
(aka The Beverly Hillbillies theme song)

Come and listen to a story about a girl we know,
Sweet little thing just lookin' for a beau,
That's when she lent a hand to fate,
And she packed up and moved to the Sunshine state.

Florida that is. More boys. Lots of 'em.

Well the first thing you know she’s met a millionaire,
All their friends said, “You're the perfect pair!”
But then one day she discovers she’s a fool,
Cause the man that she's been falling for's a two timin' tool.

Cheater that is. Pond scum. Lyin' snake.

Well not long ago he asked for another chance,
He promised her lots of fun and romance,
Two months into their second little whirl,
Turns out he's cheating with that very same girl.

Same girl that is. From before. Yes it's true.

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Well, now it's time to leave behind his psychopathic ways,
And I am here to tell you that I'll learn one of these days,
You're all invited back again to laugh at my expense,
And share a heaping helping of your awesome common sense.

Stupid that is. Stupid girl. That is me.

Y’all come back now, y’hear?