A vicious cycle

It never ceases to amaze me how stupid/lazy people can be. I say "stupid/lazy" because I strongly feel that those two are connected on a much deeper level than people think. Check this out.

Take a stupid person, for example. Let's call him Stu, just for humor's sake. Stu is, well, not too bright. So, Stu calls up, oh, let's say, the BYU English Composition department. Stu wants to know what classes constitute the "Advanced Writing" part of his curriculum. Even though this information is listed many times in the course catalog and the BYU and BYU English webpages, we'll give that one to Stu and tell him. "English 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, and 316." Stu contemplates this for a moment, then asks, "What about English 252?" "No, I'm sorry Stu. Just the ones we told you." "What about English 281?" "No, Stu." "What about . . . " (That was the stupid. Here's where the lazy comes in.)

After drilling it into Stu's head that only those 6 classes will count, Stu then asks if we can tell him all the available classes from each course that are still available. Wow. Rather than ask him what his last slave died of, we simply tell Stu he can find all this information online and check for himself. (That was the lazy. Back to the stupid.)

Stu asks where online he can find that information, though he has registered for classes many times in the past and should be rather familiar with Route Y. (Stupid.)

Then Stu asks if we can email him a link to that page. (Lazy.)

Stu's adventure goes on, but I'll stop there. And now, after reading this, perhaps you can agree with my original statement: "It never ceases to amaze me how stupid/lazy people can be."