So, some people are rock-heads. Who knew?

"The real problem today is people taking other people for granite..." (over-read on an online forum somewhere recently)

My guess is the author of this post meant to say that the problem was people "taking other people for GRANTED" but, hey - maybe people mistaking other people for inanimate igneous rockage is a bigger problem in our country than I thought it was.

I personally think the real tragedy is people who do not read mindlessly reusing phrases they've overheard but obviously do not understand. Perhaps the poster quoted above was kin to the Miss Teen USA contestant who made a fool of herself recently by using nothing but parroted sound bites to answer a simple question about the lack of basic geographic literacy in the USA.

The moral of the story is, unless you actually know what you are saying it's probably better to leave those catchy phrases out of your speech. That is, unless you want other people to take you for granite.