||Credits please?

Its a fine, sunny morning. You get to college (trust me, most boring job ever!) and you're sitting there attending a lecture and going "Why am I here again?" in your head. And suddenly the professor does the mistake of saying something (which, in my case, is every sentence.) that makes you come up with a joke. You subtly lean over and tell your partner the joke, you guys snigger like a maniac, all the while trying not to burst out laughing. Change of scene, its break time, you guys are standing in a circle with your friends, doing the usual masti that people in this age group do. Suddenly your partner goes "Hey, I gotta tell you something funny." and there goes your joke. Everyone laughs, except, of course you. You stand there thinking, "I'm the cool and funny one, not you, you thief!" Sound familiar?

Lets see another scenario. Again, you're in class, the teacher does this mistake and you whisper "He's so wrong! Its supposed to go that way." And yes, you guessed it right, your partner raises his/her hand and says "Sir this is supposed to be this way". Trolled. Again. Or it could be a question that you solve and explain to your friends who show it to the lecturer as their own work and he goes all Aww! on them. It could be a band you love, your friends hear it once and go all over the place saying "These guys are awesome!" and people appreciate their 'taste in music' when you're thinking "Yeah, well, I wasn't listening to them because they suck." Or this actor/actress you're crazy about, so much so that you're pretty close to the virtual stalker category. You know every bit of trivia about them which your 'friend' cannot bear and suddenly s/he's the 'new diehard fan who knows everything'.

This world, sure is crazy. You find all types of people here. More often than not, you'll come across people like these. People with no mind of their own, living off other people's smarts. In such cases, "At least I know who came up with that." attitude does not work! You have to become a person people cannot take advantage of and Boy! That's hard to achieve these days. But you're gonna have to keep trying till everyone around you knows who the real smarty is. It feels awesome to have people hanging on your words. Try it!