--- tangent <tangent@zoominternet.net> wrote:

I've actually met several people who make even the
dimmest of the whole
fictional nerima population seem normal and well
adjusted as well as
reasonably intelligent. Akane need not actually be
stupid to do some of the
stupid things that she does, only incredibly
stubborn.

Of course, she might just be stupid...

stupid is when you have the capability to know better
but still make the mistake anyway

Intelligence and stupidity are NOT mutually exclusive.
 A fact proven by my very existence...(lots right
somewhere around a 1000 pages of stories that you will
never be able to punish while letting your original
ideas sit around undeveloped...YES!!! good idea!...no,
I'm not giving up fic writing, not at all)

(no 16 year old that I know is that
psychologically disturbed, 

I work at a telemarketing firm answering calls for
orders on graveyard...trust me...Akane is NOT that
dense compared to some...

"So that is Fort Lauderdale, F-O-R-T S-T-R-I-N-G-S,
are you SURE about that sir?"  
"Yep."  
*later*
"Does it say why they won't approve me for a credit
card?"

"And an annual charge of 36 dollars."
"36 dollars a month?!"
"No sir, annually."
"That means per month right?"
"No sir, it means per year."
"Okay.  So does that mean I'm paying 36 dollars per
month?"

"How do you spell PO Box?"
"...."
"Hello?"
"P...O...new word...B...O...X."

"I can get you the customer service number so you can
ask where the order is, sir."
"Nah, I just want to reorder."
"Okay, Well we can't give you the complete set using
the bill later option but we will send you the first
two volumes along with bill and later they will send
you the next..."
"Ohh....I already have THOSE two...I haven't gotten
the NEXT two yet."
"I can only send you the first two."

"Is the shipping less than twenty dollars?"
"Yes, it's 7 dollars and 95 cents."
"Okay.....is that less than twenty dollars?"
".......yes ma'am."

and NO, I'm NOT making those up

of
course Nabiki

and Kasumi are the only characters where I've met

people like them in real
life) she might

actually be able to learn how to swim.

I've met Kasumis and Nabikis, my sister is a lot like
Akane and Nabiki, though I usually combine her with
Kodachi and Nabiki (crazy and scheming) and call her
Kobiki (to which her complaint is that she doesn't
laugh like that, everything else she considers a
compliment)...but she has Akane's hair trigger temper
and penchant for blaming and yelling at everyone...not
nearly as athletic though


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Tribble, Kender Warrior of the Celestial Kingdom
"God has to have a sense of humor, it's the only explanation for sex." - my father
"I have to write a how-to paper for class, so I'm writing a paper on how to be psuedo-evil." - my brother

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