"Oh you're home?" when you pick up the phone isn't really a question, it's an exclamation of surprise.

The problem of course is that you all remember when OTHER people ask you a question you consider stupid. You forget the times -- because you didn't recognize them when they were happening -- when you asked someone a question that caused them to go back into the break room and bust up laughing.

We're all a bunch of intellectual prigs here, denigrating others' "stupid questions" while being completely blind to our own.

A little compassion is all I'm asking, for the askers of questions YOU consider stupid.

Alex