I admit my SAT's weren't exactly shining but some of the people that came in during the last semester litteraly amazed me with the sheer lack of common sense. For instance, I'm a sophmore last semester I had to take a general philosophy course that was a core class (for freshmen and a required class) and most of it was common sense. Yet there were some who were too busy talking about what they were going to do the following friday and then after the class, they would ask questions about the most basic of stuff.
But what really takes the cake is that I work the late night shift at the cafeteria and we serve pizza and sandwiches and to tell the truth, if some students had any lack of common sense in the class rooms, they left it at the door when they went to late night.
Some stories are that I've served drunks on several occasions, one where the girl couldn't even stand on her own and some freshmen were talking about a party where someone had spiked someone's drink with some drug and they were casual about it as if that was the norm.
Along with that are that during late night, we're open from 8:30 to Midnight and we don't serve anyone who comes in earlier or later. Yet some people have yet to figure this out since they come around 8:05 and wonder why we can't serve them and there's my personal favorite, the people come in around 11f:45 even though I'm trying to clean up tables as we're getting ready to close up.
Another one is that we make our own bread for sandwiches for late night and we offer several types but that isn't enough for some people who ask why we can't let them have the other types of bread and even after I have to take two minutes to explain that it's the deli's bread, not ours and we provide our own bread, they just shrug it off and go "Alright I'll just have a plain."
Honestly. It's no surprise how I've been able to develop an appreciation for Hobbes' view on humanity.
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