Stupid Has A Name

Talking about being asked stupid questions! As a student assistant – in the Academic Literacies unit of one of the renowned universities in Emzansi – I am asked nonsensical, I mean interesting questions everyday. As if I care, a student will ask: do I need to attend this workshop? This is when I start to show lack of interest in him/her attending, because it is stated in the invitation that the workshop is meant to ‘enhance his/her language and/or numeric proficiency’. Alternatively, one of Ours would call to ask what the charge fee for attending is. This is after we include the fact that ‘the workshops are free!’ in the invitation. But, Ours just do not read or, as ‘T’ puts it ‘God forbid they have to read’. I would put up a poster outside the Centre, saying: ‘the workshop has been cancelled, and has been rescheduled for Monday, the 10th of March’. However, a Super being will come to ask when the next workshop is! Another would call to say (with an American accent): can you please reserve a seat for me, for the workshop on numbers and stuff? This is confusing, since all the Quantitative Literacy workings are on numbers and stuff.
And this is from the future land surveyors and biochemists of this rainbow nation.