I have found over the years, a lot of really smart people for some reason, have no common sense.They maybe smart and really good at what they do, but for whatever reason, common sense seems lacking.
@FoFa: Â Very true. Â A good friend from high school was extremely smart but had little common sense. Â He could discuss very complex issues with competence, but he frequently ran out of gas in his car. Â One time, we were headed into town and he asked me to swing by a Burger King because he was starving. Â A few minutes later, as I pulled into the Burger King, he asked why we were stopping. Â I had to remind him he was starving. Â He went to LSU to be an electrical engineer. Â However, he flunked out. He took too much time on tests and would never finish. Â The questions he answered were almost always correct, but he would dwell on every little thing. Â I used to kid him that he would over-think the answer to 2+2. Â He ended up being an electrician and then eventually became a supervisor and electric power designer. Â He still sometimes runs out of gas.
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