But there's no underestimating the ignoratti.
At Sunday School last week I said something about how thrilled I was to hear about the most recent developments in mental health R&D (someone had mentioned schizophrenics). So much human suffering will be alleviated! With the straightest face in the world, the man sitting next to me wondered if scientists weren't meddling in things God meant to be left alone. This person has recently had 2 big operations, and his son who blinded himself in one eye with a bottle rocket is having a state-of-the-art glass eye made. So I guess science is fine if it helps YOUR problems but not if it helps someone else, especially all those other people 'out there' who are strangers and mean less than shit to you.
Ignoratti indeed! Best term I ever heard. Thanks - I'm gonna borrow that one.
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Oh, and the lady sitting to my left was telling about how she does routine animal operations (w/o a license, of course) for people; a neighbor had wanted a puppy's tail cropped and she made him wait "until the moon was right." Now I can see planting by the moon because of attendant weather conditions and who knows if the moon's gravitational pull might - might! - exert some influence on growing plants. But it certainly has no effect on medical procedures.
They're also convinced around here that bread literally transforms itself into worms in a dog's stomach. You don't want to hear the rest. I felt like asking if she bled patients, but I didn't.
No wonder, though, that the former OATS driver Bob took me seriously when I cheerily offered to take the pins out of his doll I made if he'd be a little nicer. He's totally convinced I'm a real witch and has nearly peed himself getting out of my way ever since I said that.
Sometimes I daydream about sneaking up behind him if the chance ever presents itself; I could touch his sleeve and mumble something that might be an incantation.
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