My college roommate wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. She was beyond ditzy, just careless with life and barely got through anything as she always did the barest minimums, half assed and mostly just sorry and always content with barely scraping by in the dirtiest and least way possible. (she came from a good family so not sure why.)
Before she dropped out of college (with a 1.8 GPA) she had a final exam where the professor told everyone to read the entire exam from start to finish before they started it. Time began and my roommate read the entire exam, taking the time to go all the way through to the end where instead of there being a last question, there was a statement: Thank you for following directions and reading this exam from beginning to end. If you have written nothing other than your Name at the top of the first page, please stop reading and turn the exam in for a grade of 100%. If you have not followed my instructions and have answered any of the questions, you must complete the entire exam for your grade.
So, she got up, picked up her purse and handed the exam to the professor who gave her a huge smile while everyone else looked shocked at her immediate exit from the room. No one else had followed directions and had to complete the entire exam. She was the only one who got 100%.
When I immigrated to America my first job was with the Bell Telephone Company in New York...
New hires were given 3 weeks of orientation and classes and on the first day I made an enemy of the instructor 3 different ways...
One of them was by acing a paper she gave us...the only one in the room to do so...college graduates and all...
There were about 20 questions most of them fill in the blank...
#1 was write your name
#2 was When you get to here stop
I read through the rest of those 20 questions
Down about #15 When you get to here call out “Im here”
Well they all wrote furiously and eventually someone called out Im here making the rest write even faster and echoes of Im here resounded from the crowded room...I mumbled after a while so that nobody would get suspicious and continued to pretend I was still writing..
The instructor was preparing to crow that she had fooled us all when I put up my hand and said I stopped when I was told to...and offered my paper...
Well I thought she would be pleased but she came unglued and daggers shot from her eyes...how dare an ignorant immigrant beat out the American college students !!!
Apparently I was the only one in all her classes who followed directions..clearly stated in English...my mother tongue...
LOL
BTW this was 1971 their children and grandchildren are even worse
:)