Is Ignorance Truely Bliss?

I sit here, bored, pondering...is ignorance really bliss? Ignorant people tend to look pretty happy. More than once I've noticed a smile on a face that has a vacant stare. What is it about ignorance that could make someone so happy?

I assume being really ignorant would keep you from knowing you were dumber than a box of rocks. Maybe that's where the blissful feeling starts coming in. When I've done something truely stupid, I always feel rather crappy about it and feeling crappy greatly detracts from bliss. I guess if I was too stupid to realize I was stupid though, I wouldn't feel crappy and therefore my bliss would be unaffected. These overly ignorant and blissful people really gripe my last nerve though.

I work with a blissful idiot. She doesn't seem to care that she laughs at a joke five minutes after the joke was told. She chuckles and giggles right along, oblivious to the stares of those around her. She also has the habit of showing up for work sick. It would be alright if she stayed to herself, but oh no, she comes and stares at me over the counter, wanting me to talk to her. Since the only 2 things we have in common are being female and sharing the same airspace, I rarely find anything I want to talk to her about. Just hearing her talk makes my nerves crawl as she says "onlyest", "oncest", "hope it feels better for you", and she once pronounced the name Penelope as "pen-A-lope". Needless to say, she spends a lot of time staring at me, while I try to ignore her.

Anyway, last Monday she blissfully trotted in with a head cold from hell. Fever, coughing, sneezing, spewing, snorting. And she did her usual staring at me from over the counter. I asked if she needed anything and she blissfully replied no. She stood there awhile and blissfully coughed and sneezed on me. I started getting sick Wednesday evening. I fought it pretty well until Saturday. Now I'm coughing, aching, sneezing, feverish, stuffy headed and in bad need of rest. If I felt better, I would kick her. I'm staying home today, smart enough to know most people don't appreciate it when you share your germs with them.