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Most people these days don't believe anything is free. But yes, reading has gone down hill.
Apparently, reading comprehension is a lost art in our city.
On top of my booth at the mall, there is a sign that says: Pick up a FREE book here.
The sign is set right beside stacks of the same book- the exact book that is prominently pictured on the "Free book" sign.
Nevertheless, grown up people, all fluent in English, regularly approach my booth, read the sign slowly, and then proceed to ask me what the sign means.
And when I say ask, I don't mean in a jesting or a making conversation way. The people are completely confounded.
The sign is one that anyone who has completed fourth grade reading and is capable of playing the matching game ought to be able to figure it out.
Honestly, I don't know what to say to these people.
Suggestions?
Most people these days don't believe anything is free. But yes, reading has gone down hill.
+1 we've grown accustom to expecting a catch
That's because people are so conditioned now to the fact that nothing is really "free". They think there has to be a catch somewhere. They probably have a confused look on their face, don't they?
God's love is free.
i love to read.
I guess that is it. But it just threw me that people literally asked, " What does the sign mean?"That's because people are so conditioned now to the fact that nothing is really "free". They think there has to be a catch somewhere. They probably have a confused look on their face, don't they?
If they had asked, " What's the catch?" or even " Is this book really free?" I would have understood that.
I have seen several people read the sign and take a book so I just assumed that everyone got the concept.
You want a book? I have tons of them!
I'll even like to give you the sign, since apparently it is useless to me.
At least they aren't trying to pay for a gift card with a load of $1 bills while asking what the sign means. Wouldn't want to annoy you two times all at once.
Way to help me see the silver lining. Thanks Mel!
People are stupid. This isn't about skepticism its about a complete lack of comprehension. I get asked dumb question after dumb question daily. I know it might come as a shock to most people but 2-3 times a day I have someone point to the sofa and ask me if its a sofa. They'll point to a table and ask me if its the table. They'll walking into the bedroom see the bed and ask me if it the bedroom"oh noooo this is the bathroom just right there on the comforter". You have no idea (or now you do) how unbelievably stupid people are. These people usually have kids too. Which is even more frightening.
which mall are you at?You want a book? I have tons of them!
I'll even like to give you the sign, since apparently it is useless to me.
Rolling Oaks.
maybe i'll stop by
how long will you be there? i am getting off work.
What's the le?
I am actually about to leave for today. I will be here tomorrow from 10-3.
The book is a Halequin en led " Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch". It is by B.J. Daniels and is categorized as a suspense novel.
Feel free to come by and take several. I literally have boxes full to give away.
I get this sort of fun everyday. Admittedly the entire purpose of our office is to be kind of a lighthouse for the lost and moronic, but some people really take the cake. The most frequent question we get is where to get a student ID. So to save everyone some time and effort we put a big sign right next to our front door that says, "STUDENT I.D. OFFICE: UPSTAIRS, #279".
At least once a day someone stops, reads the sign (sometimes twice, as we watch their lips moving), and still bothers to come in and ask. And someday these kids are supposed to be the ones slicing me open on an operating table or designing a bridge I might drive over on a daily basis.
what is this thread about?
Kids that were just like them are the men and women slicing you open/designing your bridges nowadays.
its about trying to figure out how to get you to quit posting.
you stop, i'll stop.
This kind of bull happens at my office all day. We are in an office building full of doctor's offices. It doesn't really piss me off to direct people to the office they need to be at, but it really ticks off one of my male co-workers. So much so that he's written a sign, in English & in Spanish that says "We are not a doctor's office and we are not optometrists. Labcorp is in suite 301." We get people every other day coming in asking if we are eye doctors or if we are Labcorp. They don't bother reading the mother ing sign. Dear God! Do we look like a doctor's office? We have tables and signs screaming "Stop foreclosure! Unionize the workers! Health care for all! etc." When it happens several times in one day it irks me, but I get a laugh out of it when my co-worker calls the wayward patients "stupid" every single time it happens.
I'm currently reading Michael Connelly's The Brass Verdict and I have Mark Levin's Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto waiting in the wings.
I don't have much time to read now that I've become addicted to Mafia Wars on Facebook...
No, they're not. Those are the art majors.
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