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August 27, 2007 By Carole

On Friday I took Hannah for her back to school haircut. Truthfully, she didn’t come out looking all that different than when she went in, but she’s happy and in the life of a teenager that’s a very big deal. So while I sat and waited for her, I was knitting. And I overheard this conversation between one of the other hairdressers and her client.

Client: Look at my daughter’s black eye! The Harry Potter book fell of her bookshelf in the night and hit her in the face.
Hairdresser: Oh my goodness. Looks like Hermione is coming to get you, sweetie. (she hums the Twilight Zone theme at this point.) She wants to take you to Hogwarts with her, I bet.
Client: You know, one of my friends visited Hogwarts.
Hairdresser: It’s a real place?
Client: Oh yes! The name is different but it’s a castle just like in the books and they teach magic to young witches and wizards.
Hairdresser: I had no idea. Well, my brother actually has copies of all of the Harry Potter books from the 1960s when J.K. Rowling originally wrote them.
Client: Really?!?
Hairdresser: Oh yes! They aren’t in book form like we see them now, they are, what’s that word? Manuscripts! Yes, manuscripts. He has manuscripts of all seven books from the 60s.
Client: Wow. That’s really amazing.

Ummmm. You can imagine the difficulty I had keeping my mouth shut. Hogwarts is a real place? The hoopla over Bridges of Madison County being “real” was bad enough. Now people are claiming that Hogwarts is real? Oy. Copies of the books from the 60s? J.K. Rowling was born in 1965. Is she supposed to have written the books when she was a toddler?

How stupid can people be? Discuss.

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  1. lisa says

    August 27, 2007 at 2:02 pm

    in-cre-ab-la (this is french for un-frikn’ believable)!

  2. Kelli says

    August 27, 2007 at 2:13 pm

    Hee hee hee, that is one funny conversation. I doubt that I could have kept my mouth shut.

  3. Risa says

    August 27, 2007 at 2:23 pm

    That’s a fabulous story. Frightening, but fabulous

  4. Jeannie says

    August 27, 2007 at 2:36 pm

    UGH
    some people will believe anything!

  5. Lucia says

    August 27, 2007 at 3:19 pm

    JKR is a time traveler, of course. I can’t believe you didn’t know that.

  6. Tracy J says

    August 27, 2007 at 4:26 pm

    People never cease to amaze me.

  7. Birdsong says

    August 27, 2007 at 5:18 pm

    Though you couldn’t laugh out loud right at the moment, bet you had a great guffaw or two later. Yup, they can be pretty durn stupid.

  8. becky says

    August 27, 2007 at 5:20 pm

    The two most abundant elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. –Harlan Ellison

  9. chris says

    August 27, 2007 at 5:22 pm

    LMAO! How stupid can people be? Well, I find they can surpass our wildest expectations! And there’s no cure for it, either.

  10. Kirsten says

    August 27, 2007 at 5:41 pm

    Oh my! JK Rowling must’ve been very precocious! Thanks for the laugh!

  11. --Deb says

    August 27, 2007 at 6:25 pm

    Idiots….. (grin)

  12. Norma says

    August 27, 2007 at 6:29 pm

    This takes “gullible” to a whole new level!!!! Holy crap, this has (kind of) made my day…..

  13. Heather says

    August 27, 2007 at 7:31 pm

    I had to read the conversation about 3 times to have it actually sink in that they actually said what they said! I love reading the other comments, too!

  14. Susan says

    August 27, 2007 at 8:35 pm

    Uhhhhhh……I got nothin’ here.

  15. Leslie says

    August 27, 2007 at 8:45 pm

    No need to discuss…I think you’ve said it all!

  16. sheryl says

    August 27, 2007 at 9:31 pm

    If she is trying to pass that load of crap off at truth, can we really believe the daughter got the black eye from a book???

  17. Debi Leshin says

    August 27, 2007 at 10:16 pm

    Pretty damn stupid apparently. When you go back, tell her I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale!

  18. Teyani says

    August 27, 2007 at 10:50 pm

    hah hahaahahahahahahahahahahahaha
    (big gulp for air) hahahahahahah

  19. Kim says

    August 27, 2007 at 11:23 pm

    I’m thinking that client has had one too many dye jobs….

  20. Alarming Female says

    August 28, 2007 at 2:07 am

    Today I finished The Amber Spyglass. Blew.my.mind.

    My favorite quote:

    All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.

    And BTW, I doubt there is a book I despise more than BOMC. You hit the nail on the head, sister. I worked at a bookstore when it came out and I don’t know to how many people I pointed out that the book is a NOVEL. See? It says so, right there on the spine.

  21. Aunt Wie says

    August 29, 2007 at 11:59 am

    I am a teacher. Most of the kids are really pretty smart on various levels and in various ways. I also deal with their parents. There is no limit to how stupid adults can be. No limit. None.

  22. jessie says

    August 30, 2007 at 6:13 am

    Okay, my stupid kitten just jumped on the delete key and erased my comments about back-to-school, Monkey socks, and county fairs. It was all good.

    This exchange at the hairdresser’s cracked me up. The difference between you and me is that I would have said something. I am rarely confrontational or rude, but I would have at least said something about JKR’s birthday, loud and laughing. Not that it would have been well received….

    Too funny.

  23. Helen says

    August 30, 2007 at 9:22 am

    Now the bit about Hogwarts being real? I totally get why someone WANTS to believe. I WANT to believe. I want to GO! or at least to be able to send my kids. No… I want to go.
    but books written in the 60’s??? What, she has a time turner now? all those hours in the coffee shop were augmented by jaunts to the 60’s where/when she wrote it up and stashed it somewhere?
    ahem.
    How is it that people were generally so much smarter w/ 8th grade educations than they are now w/ H.S. diplomas? My grandmother (8th grade graduate who then went to work) was WAY smarter than these folks. And I”ll bet they have their diplomas.

  24. Carrie says

    September 3, 2007 at 12:22 pm

    Awesome. These two were made for each other!

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