Assumption is the mother of all snafus

People who know me have heard this before but I've never really blogged on it. Well one of my biggest pet peeves is assumptions. I really hate when I do it and I hate it when I see others doing it because at least 85% of the time we 're wrong. Not just a little wrong either, like totally off the mark wrong. It especially annoys me when people say things like: "Well I don't really know them that well (or I've never met them personally) but it seems to me..." Hey look it's an assumption! Maybe if you don't know the person that well (or at all) you should keep your trap shut. It's likely as not that the people involved haven't told you everything and chances are even if they did and you still haven't seen the situation it's self your working off of biased information. I mean you could assume a lot of really stupid things if you based those assumptions off of the speeches Hitler made. A less extreme example would be assuming that what one political party said was truth and never listening to other parties before you formed an opinion. People make assumptions about me all the time and I find it really amusing when after they have known me for a bit they say things like: "You know I always thought.... I didn't know about..." It's funny but at the same time it's sad that we make these snap judgments. Oh I'm not saying I don't do it, because I do, but I'm aware that I have done so and do not voice my opinion until I have had time to find out more. That's what really gets people in trouble and makes me mad; the whole forming an opinion without trying to find out more. But what a really don't get is why people keep doing it over and over again. I mean how many times do you have to make a fool of yourself before you become embarrassed enough to stop. I sure couldn't take it for long but then again maybe I'm just sensitive...... ya right.