When people say "I'm street smart", this is what I hear: "I can't do the simplest math problems or tell you who won the civil war, but I can make a drug deal", amirite?

+122 When people say "I'm street smart", this is what I hear: "I can't do the simplest math problems or tell you who won the civil war, but I can make a drug deal", amirite?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I can do both. Hooray for being multitalented.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

For one, someone who deals drugs actually does know a good bit of math. Second, street smart means being able to act/react in REAL LIFE situations/encounters. It involves common sense and people skills. It only is a stereotype that street smart people are uneducated and incapable of higher education. Book smarts will only get you far in the real world-a book smart person with no street smarts might not know how to handle certain life situations. Really you need a balance of both.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Drug dealers do addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Not exactly rigorous.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It's probably not very "street smart" to brag about how good a drug dealer you are.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

As a person who is more "book smart" than "street smart," I would disagree. It's applying what I know to real life that becomes a problem.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Just to be clear, I'm not saying that people that do/sell drugs are inherently unintelligent. A drug deal was just the first thing that came into my head when I thought of street smart.

by Anonymous 11 years ago