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Discover 1 Way to Easily Spot and Avoid Idiots in Your Life

Nate Anglin
4 min readDec 5, 2023

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There I was at 18, thinking that the biggest problem of my night would be choosing between pizza or burgers.

Instead, I ended up in a situation that seemed straight out of a bad teen movie, complete with flashing police lights and a friend with a questionable understanding of ‘conflict resolution’ or perhaps self-control.

One late foggy night, a black, sporty, teenager-looking car pulled up beside me with two males who started to posture. You could smell their uncontrolled teen hormones from the city over. I didn’t care. But one of my friends in the back did. He jumped out of the car and started to beat on their passenger side window.

Stupidly, one of the hormone-infused teems rolled their window down, and my “friend” started to unleash a fury of punches to the kid’s head.

Seconds later, cop car lights turned on at the other side of the intersection.

Moments after that, we were handcuffed like a bunch of wannabe action movie stars, realizing that sometimes, life gives you a pop quiz in common sense…and my friend clearly hadn’t studied.

At every age and stage of life, sometimes you’ll find yourself in handcuffs (metaphorically speaking) because you didn’t spot the ‘idiot’ in the room early enough.

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Nate Anglin
Nate Anglin

Written by Nate Anglin

Small Biz Investor, CEO, & helping others improve their performance, profit, & potential w/out sacrificing what’s most important. www.nateanglin.com/newsletter

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