People (most) are stupid, so connect the dots.

Call Chief Inspector Barnaby from Midsomer Murders. A murder has taken place.

Yes, yesterday I felt like killing someone.

I assigned a task to this person: buy some stationery and bring to the meeting for the purpose of distribution to the people present in the meeting.

This person agreed, and we spoke on the phone that he will buy the box of envelopes and will bring this to the meeting.

Now I acknowledge a mistake I made: I wasn't specific with him: 'Please give the envelopes to the people there to prepare for our team event the following week'. Or maybe I did give him the instructions. I am not sure anymore.

Later that evening, I sent him a text message: 'Bought the envelopes?' and he replied by text: 'Envelopes with me.' I was in a meeting when I sent him the text, hence I did not ring him up.

Long story short, he brought the envelopes to the meeting the next day. But they were not distributed. Why? When I found out, and rang him up (by this time, I was fuming!), he said: 'No one told me to give the envelopes away.'

I couldn't believe it.

Stupid! Dumb-ass. Idiot of the year award candidate.

You see, people have to be told what to do because (most) people are stupid. Born that way. I mean who said that the sperm that made it conception was a clever one. No it was the clever one. It was the fastest one. Logical?

So I rang a friend later in the evening, and she counselled me when I described the situation.

She said that the dots were not connected. And yes, she agreed that (most) people are stupid, as well, as experienced from her line of work.

So she said to me, and I will now implement this:

'Got the envelopes? Great, thanks! Alright, you know what to do with them?'

And let them answer the question so that you can check if they got it right.

'Hey Mary, you have the paperwork from Helen, that's great, what are you going to do next?'

Then listen to their answer and see if they know what's the next step.

I got it! You see, I am stupid as well. The sperm Riyaz was not the cleverest, but just the fastest.

So, my dentist pal, who is my mentor, connected the dots for me (the stupid but fastest sperm).

So, now I can connect the dots to other stupid but fastest sperms around.

Big lesson of the day: People (most) are stupid, so connect the dots.