Do You Know Who I Am?

“Do you know who I am?,” George Zimmerman said, to the man in the other car.  “I will fucking kill you.”  Of course, “I will fucking kill you” is the kind of thing that people say all the time, but it’s a little bit more frightening when it comes from George Zimmerman, who has killed before and apparently has very little remorse over it.  In fact, he seems rather proud of it.

Yes, George, we know who you are. You really should not be proud of that.

“Do you know who we are?,” Sarah Palin shouted out when the owner of the house tried to kick her and her family out of his party on account of Track, the oldest Palin boy, starting a fight almost as soon as they got there.  Yes, Sarah, everybody knows who you are.  You are the extremely corrupt half term governor and failed vice presidential candidate who has exposed her abject ignorance on TV again and again and again, who couldn’t think of a single answer when a reporter asked her what newspapers she read.  You are the mother who goes on and on about Christian values and teen abstinence, whose teenage daughter got knocked up.  Yes, Sarah, we know who you are.

“Do you know who I am?”  It’s really a pathetic question.  Maybe if you’ve just woken up from a 6 month coma and your spouse is standing over your bed, trying to figure out if you’re conscious and whether or not there’s been brain damage, it makes sense.  Perhaps if you are at your 10th  High School Reunion, and you meet somebody you dated only once and she still looks pretty good, it’s a reasonable question.

One time I heard about (and this may well have been urban legend) a student who was taking an exam in college, in a lecture hall with about 200 other students, and kept writing after the professor had called time.  When he came to the front of the room to hand in his paper, the professor said “I’m sorry, you’re late.  That’s an automatic fail.”

“Do you know who I am?” the student asked, in a very sarcastic voice.  The professor looked right  back at him and said “No, I do not.”

“Good,” the student said,  shoved his test paper into the middle of the stack, and left the hall.

But, usually, when shouted in rage by someone who thinks they should be a lot more famous and important than they really are, it’s just kind of embarrassing.  Especially with people  like George Zimmerman and Sarah Palin.  They should be hoping people do not know who they are.