You must have one hell of a lucky streak to have never met a genetically dumb person.
I don't mean retarded, that's a seperate issue, just like club foot.
What I mean is this,
I had a friend in high school (the Aethiest actually), and he was dating a girl named Jenny.
Now, Jenny wasn't very good at school. She failed often, even after doing her homework and studying. So, eventually she dropped out of school.
My friend decided he wanted to help this lost little Robin, and since he was working on his GED, he decided to help her get her GED too.
They went round and round for weeks, he polished off his GED requirements in two days. Went in, did the tests, got passing grades, and met us at work.
Jenny on the other hand, had trouble. She spent 3 hours a night studing, with my friend helping her out. He would go over the basic Alegebra and sentance structure with her, over and over again. Trying to use route memorization to get it into her head.
After 6 weeks of this, my friend was getting pretty tired of it. His little robin wasn't learning to fly, and he had come to his wits end trying to help her.
I was there for the final straw. Jenny was looking at her primer, and reading studiously. She gets that "Ally McBeal" look of confusion, and kind of squirms like a little girl for a minute. She looks over to my friend, who I was playing cards with.
She asks, "Byron, what does illiterate mean?"
My friend looked at me, said "Jen, you don't want to know." And we went outside and I let him vent. |
