While my great-uncle Raymond eventually grew up to be a functional adult, no one who actually knew him would say that I'm overstating it if I say that as a kid, he wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. This was due partly to the fact that he had been extremely sheltered as a child because he was the only boy in a family that already counted two very strong-willed girls, partly because we can't all win the common sense lottery.