Reply #25: "Many eat at fast food restaurants not only because it is cheap but because they can order from [View All]

[MedleyMisty]

pictures rather than menus."

The man speaks the truth on that, although not on the second bit. I worked at Arby's for three years, and I seriously worried about people driving cars when they couldn't read the menu or understand very basic math.

It also held up the line, because I'd have to read the menu to them and go over information that was plastered everywhere for them to read.

And of course when these people who couldn't even read treated me like I was dumber than shit when my 7th grade SAT score could run circles around their high school score, it really made me angry.

My coworkers were all over the bell curve of intelligence, though - one in particular was very bright, but had grown up in hotels with a crack-addicted mother and moved out on his own as soon as he graduated from high school and was paying his own way through life. Last I heard of him he'd taken a job at Cinnabon's at the airport. You would think that supposedly liberal people would know better than to believe the conservative story of everyone achieving whatever they're capable of no matter where they start in life and thus that working in fast food is your own damn fault because you're stupid.

I miss him, he was my closest friend since high school.

Anyway, I am currently trying to cure my delusion that humans are rational and self-aware intelligent beings and this article definitely helps with that.