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| Chris Tsao... |
 Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 11:18 am |
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Here's the problem with telling people who are way below average in
intelligence major things. They're not just like "yeah," or "It sounds
good to me." They have all these stupid assumptions about it. They
might tell you your idea won't work and their logic why it won't. They
might ALSO have an assumption that doesn't have jack to do with
whether your idea will work. For example, I had an uncle who had a
heckuva lot of less brain cells in his brain than your average person
and once in late 1988, I had told him that I wanted to get a job as a
reservationist at a restaurant. Thus he assumed that I wanted to make
a lifelong career about it. But before that, I kept telling him that I
wanted to open a pizza parlour. It didn't occur to him that I just
wanted to get an entry level job in a restaurant to get my foot in the
door. I wanted to buy into a Domino's Pizza and be a franchisee. It
didn't occur to him that I was thinking that they might like me having
had experience working in a restaurant. Maybe meet potential partners
etc. He was in his seventies when he told me that, yet he didn't know
that no one makes a career out of being a reservationist and that
they're all young people just starting out in life. He explained to me
that I'll never have a lot of money as a reservationist.
He went on and on giving me more stupid advice. For example, he told
me that I won't learn anything about food as a reservationist and to
get a job as a bus boy. He did not have the lifesmarts to know that to
sell pizzas that I don't need to know about how fried fish a la
margherita or breast of riblets or oysters on the half-shelf is cooked
and/or prepared and what ingredients are in some particular kind of
cheese cake that's on the menu of any restaurant that's fancy enough
to need a busboy. One particular stupid opinion of his out of umpteen
that I learned a few times over from speaking to him about my plan to
open a pizza parlour was that he thought that only people who own
fancy restaurants with high prices make a lot of money. He didn't know
that fast food restaurants and fast food chains not only make big
bucks, but more than any one singular fancy restaurant. One reason he
thought this is because he thinks that only people who went to college
can know how to make money with a restaurant and that since
practically no people who majored in business work in fast food
restaurants as salaried workers, he confused them with the owners with
the logic that since it's a miserable place to work, and so no one
would want to who didn't have to, no one would in order to be
successful and make a nice living. That was too gray for him. That was
also only one of the reasons he thoguht this.
After telling me that I won't ever have any money as a reservationist,
he proceeded to tell me to become a cabinet maker. His logic being
that since I didn't go to college, I'm only good for manual labor.
I've learned a bunch of times from speaking to him over the years that
he thought that no one can make a lot of money without a college
education. One reason he thought this is because the stupid are narrow-
minded and so since as children they've heard people say this when
they meant, in general, he thought that it meant everyone who was ever
born and who will be and can't get the idea out of his head because
stupid people are narrow-minded, so the idea is stuck and is taking up
all of the room in his brain and so if he hears about some high school
drop out who got rich and hears hundreds of other success stories in
enough years to make him old and gray, these ideas can't enter into
his skull because the old idea is taking up all the room.
My cousin complained to me in 1994 that "He keeps giving me advice
that's all wrong for me!"
It's only people who are mildly retarded or very close to being mildly
retarder who have nothing to say when someone tells them about some
major life-decision of theirs or about something that is major that
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