I love these little anecdotes because they always pre-suppose that everyone - the writer, of course, but also the reader - themselves are the people who don't l

I love these little anecdotes because they always pre-suppose that everyone - the writer, of course, but also the reader - themselves are the people who don't lack judgment, which is a role they relegate to, perhaps, a particularly incompetent co-worker, or even unknown and faceless "drudge". Which is to say that there's an obvious affliction of narcissism at work that precludes good judgment.