To Be Or Not To Be... Clever

Have you ever managed to believe that everybody at your job do not listen to you? Did it happended that  you come to your job make some paper work or labor work and is like nobody like to listen to  you; or even all are yellowing to you different words.  Pretty common?... Everybody knows what is good an right, including you,... but nothing happens. Weird?!... I guess not. An this is just "because" as everywhere. Even in the street there is a law. With a low  "l" or a big "L' . Most of the times the society in which you may meet such situations lack the norms.
Pride take their senses and they simply came in the situations that they are not prepared to face them. Once the people can not face the situation they begin to prioritize: "this is not important", or "what are you doing is useless, I'm the pillar of the system here" and so on.
The odd thing is that there are explanations and models for every fact that we are usually facing. You simply do not have to be clever. It's just like in the outstanding book of the naturalised hungarian George Mikes "How to Be an Alien":

"How Not to be Clever

"You foreigners are so clever," said a lady to me some years ago. First, thinking of the great amount of foreign idiots and half-wits I had had the honour of meeting, I considered this remark exaggerated but complimentary.
Since then I have learnt that it was far from it. These few words expressed the lady's contempt and slight disgust for foreigners.
If you look up the word clever in any English dictionary, you will find that the dictionaries are out of date and mislead you on this point. According to the Pocket Oxford Dictionary, for instance, the word means quick and neat in movement ... skillful, talented, ingenious. Nuttall's Dictionary gives these meanings: dexterous, skillful, ingenious, quick or ready-witted, intelligent. All nice adjectives, expressing valuable and estimable characteristics. A modern Englishman, however, uses the word clever in the sense: shrewd, sly, furtive, surreptitious, treacherous, sneaking, crafty, un-English, un-Scottish, un-Welsh.
In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two and two make four, but you must not state it in a self-assured way, because this is a democratic country and others may be of a different opinion.
A continental gentleman seeing a nice panorama may remark:

"This view reminds me of Ultrecht, where the peace treaty concluding the War of Spanish Succession was signed on the 11th April, 1713. The river there, however, recalls the Guadalquivir, which rises in the Sierra de Cazorla and flows south-west to the Atlantic Ocean and is 650 kilometres long. Oh rivers ... what did Pascal say about them? 'Les rivières sont les chemins qui marchent ...' "

This pompous, showing-off way of speaking is not permissible in England. The Englishman looking at the same view would remain silent for two or three hours and think about how to put his profound feelings into words. The he would remark:

"It's pretty, isn't it?"

An English professor of mathematics would say to his maid checking up the shopping list:

"I'm no good at arithmetic, I'm afraid. Please correct me, Jane, if I am wrong, but I believe the square root of 97344 is 312."

And about knowledge. An English girl, of course, would be able to learn just a little more about, say, geography. But it is just not "chic" to know whether Budapest is the capital of Roumania, Hungary of Bulgaria. And if she happens to know that Budapestisthe capital of Roumania, she should at least be perplexed if Bucharest is mentioned suddenly.
It is so much nicer to ask, when someone speaks of Barbados, Banska Bystrica or Fiji: "Oh, those little islands ... Are they British?" (They usually are.)"

So those explanations and models that I was talking about are the standards like: ISO, DIN, BV, Norske Veritas, STAS and so on. Once people are in front of a paper that is telling them how to do something lacking a lot of headaches they become "smart". Only long exercises will settle them down in order to obey the rules  and stay quiet and happy.
Lately I get a fine for talking at the my mobile phone during driving in the city. Nice, isn't it?