The Actual Thoughts of a Dolphin who Stole a Squirrels Nuts in Vietnam

            Here’s a interesting quote. “Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.”  I’m not quite sure who wrote this quote but according to Google, it comes from fortune cookies and is a variation of Murphy’s Law. So, in short it would be almost impossible to track the person who created this, but instead I’ll talk about what the man might’ve been.

            He was probably a smart aleck. He was probably a guy, because of the words that they use, such as how the sentence uses masculine nouns and pronouns. Whereas a girl in my opinion would use more unisex nouns like person and they’ll. While there are a bunch of factors that can make this assumption wrong, like the older it is the more likely that everybody would be writing using masculine nouns instead of unisex, but with that the older the quote , then the less likely it is to be a girl. I also think that he would be from the 20^th or 21^st centuries due to the terms used, like “a bench has wet paint” and “300 billion stars”. Since only in the past few centuries have we had the technology to even imagine that the universe holds anywhere near 300 billion stars, and a bench with wet paint just seems like something that a person closer to the present would say. He is probably from a city or lived in one sometime in his life, since that is where most park benches are. He also probably had a very jokingly and analysistic  personality  due to the seemingly humorous nature of this quote and the fact that they would notice something as random as this.

            All in all I feel like this is me 20 years from now.