No negative reflection or disrespect intended toward anyone's post, but this incident reminds me of another incident that happened many years ago.
I was just finishing painting the gas pump island, crash bar, and side of the 6 inch rise of the walkway surround the convenience story of a fuel station. I had placed wet paint signs on all pumps both sides and pulled a 60 gallon trash can into the center of the drive between the pumps and store with wet paint signs on both approaching sides of it. As I was finishing, a gentleman pulled in at the pumps in a Ford truck and got out to pump his fuel and made eye contact with me. I placed a wet paint sign on the door above the handle and to the side of the handle and went inside and was talking to the manager at the counter. The gentleman finished pumping his fuel and came inside and said to me as he entered "I Think I Stepped In Your Paint" as he tracked it into the store.
I replied that I had been seeing the TV announcement by the 700 Club about their "Literacy Across America" program teaching adults to read. IIRC they were reporting that about 30-40 % of the Adult population could not read.
The gentleman Huffed, "I Have You Know I Read Your Signs."
I replied, "Now That Is Interesting."
He huffed out the store.
The moral of the story; He admitted that he could read and had in fact read the wet paint signs but yet walked in the wet paint. Its all about comprehension of what is read.
I learned having worked with thousands of adults and children over my career that the problem we have in America is not that we cannot read; we have a comprehension problem. Little children can read but they lack comprehension of much of what they read. We adults often do the same. We read but for some reason we arrive at the wrong conclusion about what we read.
