People making assumptions.
For your information, Mr Anonymous Idiot, I am well versed in the sciences of physics, mathematics and computers, I may even have read Jean-Paul Sartre and I have visited the theatre more than once.

So, just because I have paint on my jeans and plasterdust in my hair, and I have pulled up outside your overpriced Soho drinking establishment in a battered white Transit van, please do not look at me like I am a pleb that has just crawled out of the sewers.

Ta.



At least, that's what I would have said to him if I could be bothered. Instead I gave my money to my local when I got home.
(Half of Stephen Fry's right buttock pissed on your dog on, Tue 6 May 2008, 15:00, 2 replies)

Agreed
Back in my commuting days, I working for a Building Services firm, and wore jeans and a company polo shirt.

The looks I got from the suits who boarded at Milton Keynes always made me smile/boil* inside.


*-either or, perhaps both, depending on mood
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Tue 6 May 2008, 15:14, closed)

Aye
I worked behind a bar after I got my PhD and before I got my first research job. I can add up in my head and remember an order of more than two drinks, just because I'm bar staff does not automatically make me some kind of moron.

I particularly enjoyed correcting someone's explanation of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle while I was pouring them a G and T.

I now never assume that the people serving me don't have a brain and thus try to treat them as I would wish to be treated. Naturally if they turn out to be a spacktard, I'll happily revise that opnion.
(Rakky (forgot her password) The muffin maverick, Tue 6 May 2008, 17:25, closed)