How did these people graduate?

One of the things I've decided to do is write a little more about what goes on in my work life. Mostly because it's just that unbelievable. Please note, the names have been changed to protect ME. While most of them are not computer savvy, the last thing I need is for them to find this blog, figure out it's me and see what I plan to write about them.

For those of you who don't know, I work in a garage type setting. The exact nature of our business I am not going to mention (at least not yet). But suffice it to say, there's a shop, where a bunch of guys work, and an office where a bunch of women work. It's a mainly male dominated field. And our office is the exception to the industry rule.

It's a family business, where the owner has employed his daughters for all of their working lives. None of them have ever worked anywhere else.

So you can see where I'm going with this and the title of this post.

I honestly don't know how some of the people I work with graduated high school. Never mind that a couple of them have college degrees!

The conversation here in the office recently was about what offices would be open today (for those of you out of country, today is a national day of mourning for President Ford). A couple of us were discussing, would the banks be open, would the town hall be open... etc. D. pipes up with her bank is open. To which we all reply, that figures it's federal offices that will be closed.
Her reply? "so town hall is closed?"
We reply "no, it's FEDERAL offices that are closed".
Next question "so the offices in our state capital are closed?"
at this point I start shaking my head as others repeat "no it's FEDERAL offices that are closed"
D. then asks what that means. We attempt to give her the short answer "offices in Washington D.C. and the post office are closed, you know, the FEDERAL ones"
The kicker is her ending statement about this whole thing. "whatever that means"

Now I don't claim to be a Rhodes scholar. But as I recall, I had to study how my own government works in high school. Hell, what am I saying? I had to study that in junior high and grammar school.

I guess when your daddy doesn't buy your grades you learn things like what the federal government is.