no no this roommate isn't a retard! just naive!
he doesn't know anything about computers, but he applied for a job at a tech company that handles some sort of internet sales stuff, and they were talking about how his job would be to "sell" customers on their product, and he stopped the guy and said, "Wait, they'd buy this stuff 'over the interweb'?"
the guy's like "uhhh...yeah..."
and bill's all suspicious like, "Isn't that kind of...dangerous?"
i heard about this from someone who heard about this from someone ELSE who worked there, meaning the story had been passed around through the entire company. needless to say, he didn't get the job.