Secrets

You've probably heard of the word "charlatan." If not, I'll save you some trouble. It's a person who pretends to know things they really don't. Just the kind of pretentious self-conscious people I like to deal with on a daily basis. I've noticed in existence a couple of other groups, though, that share similar qualities with the charlatans, but are several times worse. I present to you, the charrogans.

The word is derived from the combining of the word "charlatan" with the Latin "arrogāns" meaning "arrogant". I'm sure you've met a few charrogans in the past, and are probably dealing with at least one right now. There are two groups I've noticed, as I've already stated, so let's find out which charrogan your "buddy" is.

Let's start with a Type B charrogan. This group consists of those who truly are smart, but acquire some compulsive need to flaunt it at every opportunity they're given. You've seen these people I'm sure. They go out of their way to prove something to you; usually their intelligence level. Say they're working on Calculus homework. They might say, while sitting immediately next to someone who they know doesn't possess any Calculus knowledge at all, something like, "Wow! This Calculus is so easy! Especially these derivatives! Just use the power rule and BAM! they're done." Arrogant right? Why say that? There's absolutely no reason to!

Alright, now we have the Type A charrogans; "A" for Alpha because that's what these people need to feel like all the time. These Type As are essentially Type Bs with an extra need: complete superiority. The intelligence level can vary though, which makes this group even worse (as impossible as that sounds)! Let's say this time someone is praising him/herself over a good grade they received on a history test. There's certainly nothing wrong with this act as long as it's not gone overboard. This person is not a charrogan. The kind of person I'm talking about will approach this praiser and say, "I've gotten straight As this whole semester!" See how much worse they are? They have to one-up you on everything...everything! You could simply be telling your friends about how you caught 5 fish yesterday, and a Type A, who isn't your friend (and isn't even part of the conversation!), would let you know that he caught 6 fish in the same pond. Now how unneeded was that?

Charrogans, of all types, are obviously in need of attention. It's sad that both of their parents work all day and night, or they get majorly spoiled at home and it's different at school, etc...Whatever the reason behind it though, there's no absolutely excuse for executing a flaunt in such a manner. I don't understand what these people get out of it in the first place. Most others will ignore them, and it's a sure-fire way to score a negative number on the one-to-ten social scale.

It's completely ok to flaunt every once in a while; I have no problem with it. The problems begin when people go overboard and out of line, and I think this is pretty self-explanatory. Running through the hallways alerting everyone to your memorization of your fortieth TV show theme song is a not-so-extreme example of what I mean.

So, if you're a charrogan of Type A, B, or maybe even a letter I haven't covered, I hope you understand now what the general population thinks of you. Even a group of double-digit IQers can pick you out of the lot by exploring the crevices and passageways of their intricate nascular system.