Curmudgeons Rule?

I recently saw the movie "Contagion."  Of course, being a cheapskate, er, careful with money that is, I waited until it showed up on cable.  And I learned an important lesson from this movie - curmudgeons are ideally suited to resisting infections spread by touch or through the air.  Think about it - we naturally eschew companionship, rarely expose ourselves to crowds, shop intelligently at hours when things are least crowded - in short, we have developed a key survival skill.

And we do so naturally.  No wonder our kind has survived through the ages. We probably skirted the Black Plague, dodged the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, and laughed in the general direction of the swine flu.

As odd as it may sound, Curmudgeons rule!  Fine by me.