53. Bad Chemistry
Even having a degree in a field doesn’t guarantee that people will trust your knowledge on the subject. This person has a degree in biochemistry and also invented as well as published a new method for measuring lifespan in the cells they work with. Well, as they were setting up to run a tutorial session on how to do it, one student began “correcting” them. He tried to “explain how to use the method. Which I invented. And was literally there to teach him.”
53. Bad Chemistry
52. Uncivil War
No matter where you are or who you’re with, there will always be that one person trying to talk down to you about a topic you’re an expert in. This person went through that. A friend of a friend explained “the causes and effects of the American Civil War to me at a backyard party. I kept trying to take part in the conversation and he kept interrupting me.” After a while of this, a mutual friend of theirs overheard the monologue and walked over. He leaned in and said, “You know she got her grad degree in this, right?” Even after this revelation, the conversation remained the same. “Somehow it intensified his need to explain very basic things I could literally teach a class on to me.”
52. Uncivil War
