Know it alls, aren't they the best? Consummately talked about after they leaveand a pain in everyone's ass. Especially other know it alls!
I was working with this one know it all who said he has seen WD-40 freeze. Now my co-worker and I found this quite hard to believe, we've been around some cold situations. Naturally my co-worker and I countered his comment, suggesting it would have to be pretty cold in order for this to happen. To which he said "I've seen it happen".
Now what brought this all on was our canister of WD-40 not working/spraying in -22 weather. The problem as we soon found out was that there was ice around the nozzle preventing the lubricant from coming out.
As soon as Ginger (as I will now refer to him) seen that the canister was not spraying he didn't suggest but told us that it was frozen. We obviously didn't think this was the case as we have both used this product in temperatures below -30. Given our experience with WD-40 we had to argue against it.
Another instance was when we were talking about hunting and bottling meat. He offered that he eats it straight from the bottle, not even heated. This was all fine and well. During this conversation he says that "rabbit meat isn't really good for you" because it "doesn't contain any protein". Well I knew that was totally incorrect right off the bat! I told him that he has received some bad information. No he says, "there's no protein in rabbit". I told him that it was impossible, that lots of things have protein, "Christ dude" I said "even grass has protein", but to say an animal doesn't have any protein is blasphemous.
Me being me and knowing I was right I argued with him. See I used to be a know it all too. I had a fucking comment to say about everything or a fact to offer that people rarely gave a shit about. I rid myself of this sometime ago, but the temptation is always there, I just let it pass - knowing how bad it looks. My co-worker and I were in on this arguement and as much as Ginger tried to convince us of his "bad second hand news" - as I called it, we just would not give in. Normally during our days working together we would let Ginger go on and on about his superior knowledge and not challenge him since it made the day go longer - but it added quite nicely for something to laugh and talk about when we got back to our office. Realizing it was futile to continue arguing we let him have the last word. His last words and which seemed to me to be his sure fire way of substantiating this claim was that, and I quote "I was talking to someone who works at the hospital"
By the way WD-40 does in fact freeze. It's freezing point according to my second hand information is -73 degrees celsius.
