Whenever I think of this story it makes me sad.
Brother Dave owned a box shop –he manufactured corrugated boxes – in Charlotte where he employed 16 or 17 people. Some were teenagers who had dropped out of high school and one day one of them asked him for a favor.
“You travel a lot, don’t you Mr. Stith,” the woman said. My brother was a pilot and he owned a twin engine Beechcraft Baron.
“Why do you ask? Dave said.
She said she needed a Charlotte to Raleigh bus schedule. On one of his trips would he mind picking up a bus schedule and bringing it to her?
The young woman, who had dropped out of high school, was studying for the General Education Development Test, better known as the GED. A passing grade on the GED is widely regarded as the equivalent of a high school diploma.
So why did she need a bus schedule?
She said she had heard about some of the questions on the GED — she expected to be asked how long it would take her to get from Charlotte to Raleigh on a bus, assuming the bus traveled X miles at Y miles per hour.
That’s why she needed a bus schedule.
Coming Monday: Lunch Is On Me