Newsflash: Area Man Proves Stupidity on Live Radio

Surprisingly, the one proving his stupidity was not me.

I was driving to work this morning listening to the local top 40 station rather than NPR or my iPod, and the two morning show hosts were discussing the importance of looks in a relationship. Specifically, they were asking listeners to talk about whether they would ever consider dating someone considerably less attractive than themselves. If everything else about the person was wonderful, but you were a 10 and they were a 2 or a 5 or a 7 how much of a difference would be too much? (Insert self-deprecating joke about how this will never be a worry for some people here)

As they fielded calls from all sorts of people, one man stood out from the rest. Apparently, he truly did believe that too much of a looks difference could be a problem. He stated that his relationship with his new girlfriend worked so much better than his relationship with his ex-girlfriend because New Girl wasn't as hot as Ex Girl. It seems that Ex Girl knew she could do better and left. The current relationship, however, works, because New Girl can't do much better than him anyway. While the hosts of the show tried to convince him that he should never, ever under any circumstances tell New Girl this, he continued to insist that there wasn't anything bad about it. "It's all in how you put it," he explained.

Apparently saying "You'll never do better than me you troll" might be offensive to some, but "I'm glad I'm too hot for you because it means you'll never leave me" is downright complimentary.

Why is it I get the feeling that the relationship with New Girl is not going to be doing as splendidly as he would like to think for much longer?

Until later...