absurd

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.

If at first an idea isn't absurd, there's no hope for it.

Groping inside my duffel, I found my Swiss army knife and opened one of the blades. I stopped and turned brandishing it, an insane glint in my eye like Mel Gibson in Braveheart. My nearest persecutor, a young man covered in Mayan tattoos, was approaching fast. The knife made him hesitate—but that was all.