<bq author="Anonymous" href="https://old.reddit.com/r/interesting/comments/1sn5tvv/all_because_she_couldnt_cut_the_drive_thru_line/">Pretending to be crazy works really well until you run into someone pretending to be sane.</bq> In searching for the quote, I found this one in the comments, <bq author="Herman Hesse">When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane</bq> It's nice but it doesn't actually mean the same thing. Another comment claimed it was Mitch Hedberg but I can't corroborate that at all. He's one of the most quotable comics of all time and I didn't find that quote anywhere else. It sounds good, though. <bq>Mitch Hedberg who said if someone says, "Don't mess with me, I'm crazy!", that's not actually intimidating. If someone says, "Don't mess with me, I'm a refrigerator!", you stay away from that guy.</bq> As usual, mentioning Mitch Hedberg in the Reddit comments triggered an avalanche of quotations and sentiments expressed in his voice. They're like zen koans. For example, <h>Things I used to do</h> <bq>I used to love Mitch Hedberg quotes. I still do, but I used to, too.<bq>I used to love Mitch Hedberg. I still do, but I used to, too. ❤</bq></bq> These two are homages to Hedberg's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Hedberg#Death" source="Wikipedia">now-ominous-sounding</a> joke, <bq>I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.</bq> <h>Girlfriends</h> <bq>I don’t have a girlfriend but I know a girl who would be really mad if she heard me say that.</bq> <h>Baked potatoes</h> <img attachment="mitch_hedberg.webp" align="right" caption="Mitch Hedberg"><bq>I like baked potatoes. I don't have a microwave oven, and it takes forever to bake a potato in a conventional oven. Sometimes I'll just throw one in there, even if I don't want one, because by the time it's done, who knows?</bq> <h>Slip covers</h> <bq>This one commercial said "Forget everything you know about slip covers," so I did. And it was a load off my mind. Then the commercial tried to sell slip covers, but I didn't know what the fuck they were.</bq> <h>Laziness</h> <bq>I write jokes for a living, man. See I sit in my hotel at night, I think of something that's funny and then I go get a pen and I write it down. Or, if the pen's too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of ain't funny.</bq> <h>Bananas</h> <bq>My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana, and I said "No... but I want a regular banana later, so yeah."</bq> <h>Escalators</h> <bq>I like escalators, because an escalator can never break; it can only become stairs.</bq> That's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault_tolerance" source="Wikipedia">graceful degradation</a> for you.