Can You Read Cursive?

[JatoTheRipper]

That "lie" is stated in the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence.

In all seriousness, it comes down to schools not wanting to finance Special Ed and dumb-ass parents not wanting their kids to be "stigmatized" by being labeled SPED kids. Sorry... If your kid has a 78 IQ, being in class with smarter children isn't going to rub off.

Different context, but touché! :ror:

 

[Chiphead]

That "lie" is stated in the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence.

In all seriousness, it comes down to schools not wanting to finance Special Ed and dumb-ass parents not wanting their kids to be "stigmatized" by being labeled SPED kids. Sorry... If your kid has a 78 IQ, being in class with smarter children isn't going to rub off.

Only part I disagree with there is "schools not wanting to finance Special Ed". It isn't the schools, it is the politicians/government not financing the schools.

 

[high plains drifter]

She probably has one in her phone if she has a smartphone. Google maps will do what most GPS units can do.

I can remember doing residential oil delivery with a map book on the passenger seat. My trick was to remember the name of the street that came before the one I needed to take so I knew it was coming up. Kids today would lock up if you handed them a map book.

We only have a couple of things on auto-pay. I don't like giving creditors that kind of power. Emergencies can happen and next thing you know, you bounced an auto-pay and get hit with a fee.

That is EXACTLY how I feel. I want to know if there are any new fees, discrepancies, etc, and I like to review things... so I've maintained a minimal desire for auto-paying. As unfathomable as it may seem to folks these days, she does not have a smart-phone. And I don't mean to condemn her for anything... She's an absolutely smart woman with so many positive attributes and at least most of the time she's got her head screwed on right... But I guess this thread just brought back up some of my frustrations over the past week or so.

Anyway... Maybe ironically lol, we did in fact get a GPS a couple days ago b/c it IS a good idea to have one... for her and I both. It just amazes me sometimes that people much younger than I seem to not care to use their brains... at least the younger people that I'm around most of the time.

 

[Topher Builds]

Total at in and out for our lunch today was $9.04. I handed the gal a $10, she started to make change and I found a nickel. Big mistake. After giving her the nickel her way of offsetting that 5 cents was not to add it back to the change and give me 1.01 back, but instead to take another nickel out of the change and give me .91 back instead :lmao:

 

[skinnyj]

Only part I disagree with there is "schools not wanting to finance Special Ed". It isn't the schools, it is the politicians/government not financing the schools.

I kind of meant at the school bureaucracy level, and not the schools themselves.

My boss' daughter is an elementary school teacher and deals with this as well.

 

[high plains drifter]

Total at in and out for our lunch today was $9.04. I handed the gal a $10, she started to make change and I found a nickel. Big mistake. After giving her the nickel her way of offsetting that 5 cents was not to add it back to the change and give me 1.01 back, but instead to take another nickel out of the change and give me .91 back instead :lmao:

I've made that mistake SO many times ( as I still use cash for a lot of small purchases). It's funny because I can almost instantly hear the commotion of the brain-cells trying to engage. They give you that bewildered look and all of a sudden the almost completed transaction just slows to a crawl. Trying to explain things only complicates matters as now they are having to think.

 

[Old Kid]

To be Frank,(had to,lol) my mind is going bonkers(not literally) , reading what a few of you are saying, what a trip, not knowing or at that teaching cursive WOW ! Thats what i learned in school,is how to handwrite(cursive) , then some can't read a clock ? What the F@%k. Amazing the way the world is going ! Dumbing down of humanity ! No disrespect to any of yall, but DAMN, that's how i see it .

See my post in the Deep Thought thread about technology making the masses dumber.

 

[Mike Flea]

Anyway... Maybe ironically lol, we did in fact get a GPS a couple days ago b/c it IS a good idea to have one... for her and I both. It just amazes me sometimes that people much younger than I seem to not care to use their brains... at least the younger people that I'm around most of the time.

I remember riding in my parents' cars as a kid, and there was always a compass on the dash.

I can't remember ever having one in any of the many cars and trucks I've owned, up until my 2003 Dodge Ram, and then it was a digital one up above the rearview mirror, in the roof console (so to speak).

I know how to use maps, and driven thousands, maybe a million miles, and have never gotten lost (knock on wood).

When I bought my 2014 Patriot, I went to O'Reilly's and picked up a floating compass, for $4, and stuck it on my dash. It's not totally accurate, but close enough:lmao:. I figure I'm getting older, and a little forgetful, every little bit helps.

 

[struhall]

I can remember doing residential oil delivery with a map book on the passenger seat. My trick was to remember the name of the street that came before the one I needed to take so I knew it was coming up. Kids today would lock up if you handed them a map book.

I still do the same thing. If we are heading somewhere new I will look at the map and get myself as close as possible then use the MAP for the last part. When I'm on the last major road (or at least the last place I know) I will ask my wife "What street am I turning onto?" then "Left or right?" and finally "What's the last street before the one I need to turn on?" It gets me there almost every time, except when my GPS picks a new destination for me and sends me driving around downtown Dallas looking for something I'm not looking for.

If its somewhere I'm kinda familiar with I will get myself almost there before asking for the map.

 

[high plains drifter]

I remember riding in my parents' cars as a kid, and there was always a compass on the dash.

I can't remember ever having one in any of the many cars and trucks I've owned, up until my 2003 Dodge Ram, and then it was a digital one up above the rearview mirror, in the roof console (so to speak).

I know how to use maps, and driven thousands, maybe a million miles, and have never gotten lost (knock on wood).

When I bought my 2014 Patriot, I went to O'Reilly's and picked up a floating compass, for $4, and stuck it on my dash. It's not totally accurate, but close enough:lmao:. I figure I'm getting older, and a little forgetful, every little bit helps.

I remember being utterly fascinated by the compass in my dad's old 1972 Camper Special lol. Learned to accurately read a compass at an early age... maybe in Cub Scouts? Conversely, my wife never even learned to read a basic road map. She was born in '93 and although savvy with math, technologies, etc she simply never learned a good deal of the basics that I grew up with. Seems that a big difference in generalized learning is that we absorbed as much as we possibly could about anything and everything that we might ever need. Her generation seems to only be concerned with educating themselves about things that immediately apply to them. I also remember WANTING to learn about all sorts of things. I don't see that enthusiasm in the younger folks now.

 

[THUNDER PRO]

On day when the grid fails will there be enough sheppards to save the overwhelming flocks of sheep. Or should those shepherds allow nature to take its natural selection to thin the herds for a better tomorrow?

 

[sherbs]

On day when the grid fails will there be enough sheppards to save the overwhelming flocks of sheep. Or should those shepherds allow nature to take its natural selection to thin the herds for a better tomorrow?

I do not think there will be enough shepherds, and that my friends is how it will fix stupid.

 

[BigSki]

Anyway... Maybe ironically lol, we did in fact get a GPS a couple days ago b/c it IS a good idea to have one... for her and I both. It just amazes me sometimes that people much younger than I seem to not care to use their brains... at least the younger people that I'm around most of the time.

You can still have some fun at their expense by locking up the "north" bearing on a map software like WAZE. It's down right scary when they realize that they aren't going "straight" on the map, the arrow is going "down" or "left". Then try to get them to understand basic navigation skills like east, west, north and south. :shock:

 

[Jim85IROC]

On day when the grid fails will there be enough sheppards to save the overwhelming flocks of sheep. Or should those shepherds allow nature to take its natural selection to thin the herds for a better tomorrow?

I'll be too busy trying to keep my wife from getting lost to worry about anybody else.:lmao:

 

[Mike Flea]

I've tried to teach my wife the number code for highway routes, even number highways are east-west and odd number highways are north-south.

She asks, "What if they run diagonal?", I said if you look at a map, and the highway is covering more distance from point A to point B in a flat manner, it will have an even number, if more vertical, an odd number.

She says she learned to watch for landmarks. I laughed. Like what? I asked. She says I look for the huge tree on the corner, or here's a good one, "the big lumberjack with the sign where the axe was". Guess what, 20 years ago, when it was there, you could do that, that stuff disappeared a few years back when a developer bought the land and put townhomes up :lmao:

 

[BigSki]

I've tried to teach my wife the number code for highway routes, even number highways are east-west and odd number highways are north-south.

I tried that once with my ex, I even went as far to explain that as the number got bigger, you were going either more east or north. Nothing but crickets chirping... :???:

 

[HumboldtEF]

I would just add that some people have sloppy hard to read penmanship. We get thank you letters a my work from time to time in cursive and there are usually a few words written so poorly I have to really dig into it to figure out what they tried to spell.

And I'd also say while cursive is taught (for like 2 weeks for me) its not something that sticks with you as its really never used just like calculus for us non mathematicians. Its really like a forgotten language, rarely used or seen and taught only for a few short weeks when young, I cant blame anyone who doesn't use it or feel comfortable dealing with it for business purposes.

 

[THUNDER PRO]

And in the future archeologist will dig up cursive and rediscover it like a long lost language.

 

[RANOVRU]

Learned cursive in the 3rd grade at the private school I went to in the 80's, and we we're required to use it. When I transitioned to public school in the mid 90's no one knew what it was.

Not surprised at that it's non-existent now.

 

[Col_Sanders]

I'm 35. I went into the military at 18 and have been working for the .gov ever since I got out. We print or type. All capital letters mostly..It's usually easier to read. When I do happen to write in cursive I have to think about it. Same for lower case letters. I do it every now and then just so I can laugh at myself.

As for the change conversation, yesterday we went out to the planetarium with the kids. Adults were $2 each, both of my kids are toddlers so they were free. I hand the lady who appeared to be in her early 20s a $20 and tell her it is for 2 adults. She asks how much that is. I tell her $4. She then asks me how much change I get. I say $16. She hands me a 10, a 5, and two 1s. Scary part is she has kids. :shock: