One Strange Little Worker

Yesterday I talked about the the girl at the coffee shop, and today I went back there to enjoy another cup of coffee and some breakfast. Since I really don't know her name, I'll just stick with "the Second Worker." So, the Second Worker was operating the cash register in full tilt this morning. I got there around 7:30 and joined the line that had formed. So, I got in line,and there wasn't a place in the coffee shop where you cannot her this worker's voice. She is far from quiet, we'll just say that.

One gentlemen steps up, and begins her new piece for the day, "Sir, would you like to win a chance at a free breakfast sandwich. All you have to do is recite the pledge of allegience and you can put your name in." It was alightly odd, but he declined. I also did not do this, because a breakfast sandwich doensn't mean much when you're not going back there that often. So, I ordered and sat down to wait. She kept asking away and some people would step up, and give it a shot. After the first couple failed, I was slightly alarmed. I watched 25 people come through the line while I was there, and 3 of them made it through without requiring help. 3, out of 25 did not know the pledge of allegiance. It now makes sense where this girl didn't know where South Dakota was, the Iowa education system apparently doesn't teach the pledge of allegiance either.

The Second Worker was asked by someone how they picked this way to give away a breakfast sandwich, and here was the Second Worker's explaination. "Well, I was lying in bed last night and suddenly thought that I should recite the pledge of allegience. I tried to remember it, but couldn't. It kept me up for a long time last night trying to think of how it went. So, when I got out of bed, i looked it up and thought that it'd be a great way to see how many others know it, and you can win free food!" All that, and this is where this giveaway came from. One person trying to recite it got stuck, and the Second Worker tried to help, and they both then got messed up, and the other lady that had started left before they'd figured it out. Even after looking it up, and listening to the people that knew it saying it, she still didn't get it right. I left with less faith in her, and the Iowa education system than I came in with.