[gridlock]

I once bicycled into an elephant, and I was stone cold sober at the time. It's hard to see a grey, dusty elephant at dusk, you know. They don't put tail-lights on the legs of these things.

But my favorite not-seeing-an-elephant incident happened a few years ago. My wife and I were motoring down the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn, passing Fort Hamilton as we approached the Verrazano Bridge. There was a carnival at the Fort, and staked out to a tree, right on the other side of the fence was an elephant and a small Shetland pony.

As we drive by, my wife remarks something like "look at the cute little pony!". When I pointed out to her that the pony was standing next to an elephant, she was shocked. She had looked right at the elephant, but it just didn't make any sense that an elephant should be standing next to the Belt Parkway, so she just ignored that information. They pony, however, made it through the filter.

Funny how the mind works. BTW, my wife is brilliant.

[Pearls Before Swine]

BTW, my wife is brilliant.

Yeah, but sometimes the most brilliant people can't see an elephant in front of their face, so to speak. Good story.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

I will resist the temptation to point out what your opinion of your wife's intelligence says about your own. Just not gonna dew it. :-)