It’s so nice to be reminded that there are always people dumber than you
I was answering phones today at work and got a call from this girl who needed directions to the store. (As soon as she started talking I could tell she probably failed FCAT a few times, but I’m there to help, not judge.) While she didn’t know how to get to the store (despite having a smartphone), she knew that she had to take a major interstate to get there. So far, so good. I told her to get off at the specific exit and head east.
“I don’t know what that means. Do I take a right or a left?”
I hesitated. Part of me just wanted to hang up on her, part of me wanted to laugh, but the majority of my parts wanted to say, “Let me break it down for you: we live in an area next to an ocean where all of the roads go north and south and east and west. That ocean is a reference point. You should know whether or not you’re heading towards that ocean or away from it, or that it will be on your right or left side.”
I’ve said this before, but if I was the supreme dictator of the world, I would just execute anyone who has an IQ below 100.
