Officially Smart

I'll expand this later, but yesterday I received my Mensa Membership package.

I could have joined back when I took IQ tests & the SATs 45 years ago, but never thought about it until recently.

I was wondering how my friend Gail is doing back in Chattanooga, but don't have an email address for her. One of my funniest "Oops!" moments happened when I ran into her at UC Berkeley around 1990. We had both decided to be "re-entry" students, i.e. go back & finish BA degrees after dropping out in the 1960s. Big-time coincidence.

Anyway, we went out to lunch and I was walking her back to her car when I spotted a car with a "Mensa" bumper sticker. I pointed it out and said, "What kind of idiot would put that on their car?" Yep, you guessed it. It was HER car.

It's kinda like those annoying "Proud parent of an Honor Student" bumper stickers I see everywhere nowadays. I mean, *I* could have been an honor student in High School, too, if I never discovered drugs and masturbation.

Anyway, I joined pretty-much to look her up in the members directory (accessible only to other members), but she let her membership lapse. [sigh] Now I guess I'll just have to go hug other smart people at conventions, or flash my membership card to get other folks to punch me in the face, or something,