Keep going, this is comedy GOLD!!!
"....they allowed me to go back, since I was generally just a nuisance and nothing else..."
Err... Glad too have you back?
Don't tell me you kept on asking them; "What does this button do?"
"...that planets like Earth are very hard to find..."
I'll agree with that.
"...but their life isn't intelligent..."
WHOA there Smokey, don't go starting fires you can't put out!!
Doubt we'll see those aliens ever again after that.
The extraterestrial tourism dollar would have been handy considering the global economic crisis.
Oh well... there will be others... won't there??