About a week or so ago one of my friends bought a t-shirt online that had some kind of puzzle on it and he said he was going to wear it to see if we could solve it. My confident response was, “I’m smarter than you think I am.” He kept insisting that I wouldn’t be able to and that it took HIM thirty minutes to get it. I kept repeating my response. He said we’d see.

Anyway I happened to run into him briefly tonight and noticed the print on his t-shirt was indeed the puzzle. I solved it in seconds and he commented that I was the only person who had done so. He’d clearly forgotten that he’d challenged me the week prior. I looked him straight in the eyes and said, “I told you, I’m smarter than you think I am.” Then his face lit up and he remembered and nodded in agreement.

Honestly, I’d been bluffing. I mean I’m pretty smart and I’m really good with puzzles (they’re a hobby of mine) but the truth is I’d likely never have solved it had I not have accidentally happened upon the solution a few days prior just totally by random. Like it literally crossed my dash on tumblr. But he doesn’t know that. So he’s gonna keep on believing that I’m THAT smart and I’m gonna let him. It’s the only intelligent thing to do.