The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-07
Impossible People
~ Or. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915. by Frank Crane)

There is no doubt about it; some peo-
pie are impossible.
We are surrounded by mysteries in
this life, things We cannot understand
and at which We constantly wonder but
not one of these puzzles is SO battling as
the man 10 whom there is no use talk
ing.
The chief thing that makes a person
impossible Is a swollen ego Nothing
NtuItliies and chloroforms the more hui
man functions SO much "a, egotism.
And egotism is very deceptive. The
first person it deceives is its posseesor.
The most self-centered of human beings
is.the last To admit he is ser-centered.
Egotist, do not always boast and
strut They are quite as prone to decry
themselves indulge in lavish sclf-dGpre-
citation and parade their failure and in
efficiency. The constant factor in all
cyclists is that they think and talk un-
ccasiugly Of themselves
But there are impossiblet who are not
cyclists
There are booriSh souls with no anten-
nT that can feel for others They are
~ro;rrst.- Tfaii4aa-ThlAr- very
presence Anglers You. 1t is not anything
they do, it is their existence that is an
otfcuse.
That sounds Ike an uncharitable say
ing But it isn't II simply means that
thay are impossible TO YOU. There may
be others that like them But for YOU
there is nothing to do but to go away.
viii confess frankly that there are
people who get on my nerves. And doubt
+rSs there are plenty VINO cannot stand
me. ! wish them no harm. | want moth
ing 70 come between US but distance, and
plenty of 1t.
My experience, after several hundred
reIncarnationS, teaches me that when l
meet IN impossible the only thing to do
is TO run. There may be superior souls
who can overcome their spiritual aver
sious, or who haven't any and like every
body but am not one of the number.
one impossible person is the dsoyal
you swap yarns with him, go fishing
with him. play cards with him, eat and
drink and laugh with him, and you feel
he is your kind and then one day you
discover that he says mean and damag-
inRe things about you. In such case /
don't know what you do but as for me
out of my life, My days on earth
are too few 20 bother with snakes.
Another impossible is the loud person.
He won't let YOU finish a sentence, but
breaks in on YOU with his blizzard voice.
lie puts words in your mouth, quotes
You a. saying what you never dreamed
Iof, and proceeds 20 answer TO his own
/ glory He is dominant pervasive and
Jerks, shoyes and kicks you along with
his bHsterou- conversation till you long
/ to brain him. He is especially impossible
I If you want 10 do business with him or
ARE trying 20 induce him to do anything.
Then there are the slumpers, the peo-
! pie who just flop helplessly down on you,
take no thought Of the morrow, and leave
lit all to you The more you help them,
/ the more they slump.
Any plain, ordinary human being who
minds his own business, is reasonably
thoughtful Of others. and does not ever
/ lastingly blow his own trumpet / can
/ get along with.
But from SNUG people and priggish
people, imposing people and supersensi-
tive. gross people and pernickety people,
implvious, prciudiced self-conceited,
fanatic, vulgar and nimny-priminy peo-
Iple-good Lord deliver us.
p. S-Thc beauty Of it is that these
very people, when they read this, will
say screnely, yes indeed! | know folks
like that"