Comments on: Ivy League Loser

By: Mary Poppins in Heels

Mary Poppins in Heels — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:36:31 +0000

Ugh. What a creep!

By: Christine LaRocque

Christine LaRocque — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:14:57 +0000

I’m shaking with laughter…and a little bit of horror! I love that the baby stared him down. Children just call it like it is, even in the looks they give us. Love that you captured this for us.

P.S. So sweet of you to link! Thanks very much.

By: Patti Murphy

Patti Murphy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:50:14 +0000

That’s classic. Your description of Mr. Obnoxious is absorbing, but so is your account of the observers–you and your family and black-berry bearded “baby stare”.

I ran into my Mr. Obnoxious during a school meeting. Our kids’ school was revising its allergy policy (yes, we’re so lucky there’s an allergy policy at all) and this one guy who found it necessary to announce that he’s a statistician, suggested we round up all “the allergy kids”, put them in the same room and feed them celery. I couldn’t believe it. I was open-mouthed. My daughter is quite peanut allergic.

I told him that he was being very unhelpful, but didn’t want to say more because I didn’t want to have to apologize to an arsehole for being rude. I see him from time to time at school events. I try to give him the benefit of the doubt by chalking up his social ineptitude to a possible case of Asperger’s.

By: Rudri

Rudri — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:11:43 +0000

I want to say I can’t believe it, but unfortunately I’ve run into that lawyer type in the past. I’ve also worked with a female lawyer with those characteristics. It makes me sad about my former profession.

Thanks so much for linking me in your ILI charms section. I appreciate it so much.

By: Belinda Munoz

Belinda Munoz — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:32:31 +0000

We’re a fascinating bunch, aren’t we? Good for you for not going the snark route. Thanks for the laughs and the link.

By: D

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:59:50 +0000

I just spent 3 1/2 months with the worst, most condescending, all-ivy snob/Rhodes scholar/Supreme Court clerk who would have been the perfect slime mentor for your breakfast buddy! The fact that my obnoxious lawyer graduated from law school nearly 35 years ago did not seem to dull his abrasiveness. But I must say the best revenge to a season’s worth of daily snippy comments and jibes was beating him fully and completely. (I admit I am a petty person because I did enjoy that not as the main benefit but as a side perk!)
Unfortunately, our profession does attract a disproportionate amount of tools but we’re not all bad and I say it makes you appreciate all the more when you find the cool ones (like you, even though you aren’t practicing anymore).

By: mika

mika — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:25:43 +0000

I go to an Ivy now and though I don’t find my peers to be that obnoxious (yet), it’s my professors that I want to smack over the head. I mean, not only do they preach about the name but they preach about themselves, and how many scholarly articles they’ve published. And since one professor in particular, who also happens to be the department head, basically coined the term/concept “multicultural counseling” we are required to read his articles and buy his books each semester. It makes me sick.
Politics of academia :/

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:21:16 +0000

Proof that getting sometimes a moron can make it into Ivy League schools. I learned the same thing about medical school by some of my husband’s classmates.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:07:36 +0000

We don’t often get those types in my crime-ridden murderfest of a Southern town, but when we do, they are usually men in biz-cas with Bluetooth earpieces and large Adam’s apples.

By: Bumby

Bumby — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:39:59 +0000

What a hoot.
We are being watched!!!

Always Bumby