I've just launched my new blog! So I thought I would begin by explaining the "Skibicki's" Movement.
The "Skibicki's" Movement
This blog is dedicated to the "Skibicki's" of the World!
This whole Skibicki thing started as joke where I work and it seems to have stuck on with quite few of the employees. A close friend of mine started calling everyone a Skibicki (I won't tell you his story without his permission) and just as happens in a pyramid scheme this expression gained momentum, the more people heard the term the more and more people started to use the term. Any name could be used in it's place but the term Skibicki just has a nice way of rolling off your tongue.
I want to stress that being a Skibicki does not necessarily have to mean a bad thing it has also been used as greeting between friends. Also the term "Skibicki" is fictitious and any similarities to persons or people known or unknown are purely coincidental. If the content on this page offends you in any way please do not read it!
So what is a Skibicki you may ask?
To be very honest everybody has a Skibicki in his or her life. A Skibicki, to me, is that condescending person you despise at work, school or anywhere you interact with others. A Skibicki is that acquaintance of yours that has everything better than you (i.e. car, kids, dog, & etc.) you know the one. You bought a new car after scrimping and saving for the last ten years and you are very proud of this accomplishment, you begin to tell your acquaintances about it only to hear from the back of the group the problems related to the brand you bought and how far superior this persons car is to yours, even if it is just a Jeep Compass, this is not only rude but it has a tendency to deflate your self-esteem somewhat. Please note how I put the term acquaintance in italics. I did this to show you that a real Skibicki is not one of your close friends but you can call a close friend a Skibicki!
More examples of Skibicki's:
Everybody knows a person who is very, very intelligent yet they lack that certain aspect needed to get along with the majority of society and that is COMMON SENSE! I read a quote in Readers Digest magazine recently by Kyle Farnsworth and it seemed to sum up this issue in a nutshell "Common sense is Wisdom with its sleeves rolled up". If that does not ring true I don't know what does.
That person at work who talks about all of their accomplishments, you know the one, how he implemented the plan to save the corporation a zillion dollars by doing such and such, or how he is qualified in every area of your organization yet he has never, never ever been seen away from his desk. The only things they did accomplish were covered closely by another person and due to the piggyback affect the Skibicki was noticed for this achievement.
You recently bought your wife a new puppy and you mention this to a couple of guys at work. You hear someone, not in the initial conversation, chime in about how smart their dog is and the next thing you know 3 hours have passed and it has all been spent listening to this Skibicki go on and on about his dog and you weren't even talking to him in the first place.
Say it snowed last night and you had an overall accumulation of lets say 2.5 inches, The Skibicki in your group is the one who chimes in that it snowed so hard and piled so deep, at his place, that the National Guard had to be flown in to get the nurse in the neighborhood to work at the hospital, even though he only lives 5 miles away!
Are You A Skibicki?
Lets say you were driving down the road and someone cut you off. What did you do? Did you get really upset and start making gestures with your hands and yelling at the person? Did you speed up and get next to them to show them just how upset you are?
I'll bet that everyone at some point of his or her life has inadvertently cut someone off in traffic. You did not do this on purpose and you felt like a moron cowering in the drivers seat because you know you made really big mistake and ultimately ticked off the person behind you.
Ask yourself Honestly. Have I ever acted this way? The chances are that you have, maybe not as outlined above, but you have lost your composure for some really meaningless point.
What is the Point of all this?
A real Skibicki's story has to be better than yours no matter what the circumstance or the situation. Most people would call this person an A&%HOLE but you are a normal and polite person so you listen to this crap and don't say anything, you walk away from here with your ego deflated and a little pissed off at the fact that you had no comeback what so ever to level the playing field.
Everyone posseses a Skibicki within them, it's how we express our inner Skibicki that is important in life. The world has changed dramatically since you were a kid and the use of offensive language has grown into all areas of the media. No one really wants to hear this kind of talk so I am suggesting to all that instead of calling someone an A&%HOLE, D!CKH^&D, & etc. just call them a Skibicki you get the idea. When you do something lame yourself call yourself a Skibicki and you may be able to actually laugh at yourself and keep your self-esteem intact.
Together, maybe, we can start a new trend around the world
Best regards,
Mike
http://www.DebNMike.com
