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Am I the Genius?

When Did You Realize Someone Was Basically Too Dumb to Breathe?

Am I the Genius?

amithejerk.com

Education, Self-improvement

4.6765 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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0:00.0

When did he realize that someone was basically too dumb to breathe?

0:05.2

This guy burned down his convenience store for an insurance claim, but he stopped the milk and

0:09.9

bread deliveries the day before. I demolished my right foot and a bunch of other stuff in a motorcycle

0:16.4

crash, and I had to have the top of my foot removed. Guy I worked with asked me when it would grow back.

0:22.1

I explained that the skin and stuff was going to have to be grafted, but the tendons and

0:26.0

bones that had been removed were gone forever. He looked me dead in the eye and asked,

0:30.9

Well, why don't they just cut the whole freaking thing off and let it grow back?

0:35.5

Going through security and the person says I need to show a different form of ID.

0:39.8

I ask why, because I gave them my driver's license.

0:42.9

They say I needed a US document like a green card or something.

0:46.5

I'm a US citizen.

0:48.1

And then I realized.

0:50.2

I explained how District of Columbia is long for D.C., as in Washington, D.C., as in the capital of our country.

0:58.6

Oh my God, I can relate. I'm from New Mexico. The number of people who think that we're a foreign country is astounding.

1:06.3

Co-worker bought a low-flow showerhead. He filled the bathtub using the new low-flow showerhead

1:11.9

because he thought it would use less water. While driving from one big city to another,

1:17.9

I stopped in a small town to eat at a fast food chain in Texas. I order my food, get my orange

1:23.5

number tent and sit down to wait for my order. The lady who's bringing out orders has this,

1:28.4

I give up, demeanour, as she's calling out numbers that guests just aren't claiming. Each time this

1:34.0

happens, she speaks to a couple of tables to seemingly figure out who the food is for. Then I hear

1:38.9

her call number 55 while holding a tray of food for one person. I was number 54 and noticed I was the only single

1:46.0

party guest to the place. We make eye contact and she heads towards me. She confirms my order

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