Anyone who knows me is well aware of one of my overused catch phrases “reading’s for suckers.” Little did I know that there was more truth to that statement!
I’m going to make a long story short here, as most of the details mean nothing to the tale. My boss asks me where in the state stormwater management manuals is there any mention of a concept plan approval. Here is the line verbatim from the manual.
“Comments from the review agency during Concept approval will be addressed…” – Maryland Environmental Site Design (ESD) Process & Computations, July 2010, p. 10
As I show this to the boss, he says “that’s not what it means.” I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but I can read and do have a pretty good grasp of the English language and can comprehend simple sentences. Unless there has been some sort of meeting of dictionary publishers everywhere, I’m pretty sure approval still means that a higher authority has to give an ok before you can move on to the next step in the process.
This isn’t the first time I’ve been told by those who apparently are wiser and more powerful than me that the words I read don’t mean what they say.
The moral of the story, kids? Don’t bother with learning to read. Printed words mean nothing, and you can just do as you wish…unless someone with more money and higher connections feels like fucking you up the ass, then printed words mean everything!
with reading and typing. Posted by Xelger at 2:04pm on Jan/08/2011