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December 13, 2005
Horrible Human Beings: Volume II – The Law School Classmate
After the first day of the bar exam, a group of classmates and I had dinner at a fairly nice Italian restaurant in Ontario, California, which, if you happen to be wondering, is a complete and total dump of a city. (Fortunately, it has an In-N-Out burger. Unfortunately, it has an awful Hilton Hotel, which I thought would be a nice place to stay while taking the bar.) Although we talked about a variety of things, at some point, the name of a student who was hated by everyone wasn’t particularly well liked managed to surface. One of my classmates had never heard of this woman, which came as a complete shock to the rest of us because although my law school was quite large, having never heard of this woman would be akin to living in Iraq and not knowing anything about Saddam Hussein. We tried to tell our classmate just how horrible this woman was, but he seemed unfazed.
Ignorant Classmate: Come on, guys. She can’t be that bad.
Thinking Fool: Put it this way. During my final semester in law school, I spent a lot of time teaching street law to juvenile delinquents and men at a halfway house. Some of these people committed really violent crimes. Knowing that, I can honestly look you in the eyes and tell you that I would rather spend time with every single one of those street law students than spend a minute with this particular classmate.
The Moral of the Story: Don’t piss everyone off at orientation by trying to be a show off and then follow that up by being an awful human being for the next three years, unless of course you don't want people to like you. If that's your ultimate goal, then you've got a foolproof strategy.
Comments
So, she was Thoughtless Fool, the force that balances you out in the universe?
Posted by: The Attractive Nuisance at December 13, 2005 09:08 PM
The only way she'd balance me out is if I were one of the best human beings on the planet - then because she's one of the world's horrible human beings, all would be right in the universe, especially now that Tookie has left us. Unfortunately, I don't think I'm one of the best human beings on the planet, but I do think I've contributed more to society than Tookie ever did, noble prize nominations notwithstanding!
Posted by: Fool at December 13, 2005 11:59 PM
Were this person's initials the 13th letter of the alphabet followed by the 5th letter???
Posted by: (m) at December 14, 2005 10:57 AM
TELL US HER NAME!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Finished.Law.School at December 15, 2005 04:02 PM
I will not tell you her name, but I will tell you that her first and last initials are adjacent to each other in the alphabet..
Posted by: Fool at December 15, 2005 06:18 PM
