I live in a town that has a higher than normal amount of college degree holders. Mainly retired military officers. Some try to talk over your head, snub you, treat you less than equal but, there are some who are very down to earth. A degree may make you more educated in some ways but, it does not make you better. These fellows for the most part need some type of transition course when close to retirement to civilian life. Most can't get it through there head that they are not god. They find out when they get the good paying computer jobs here in town that co workers will mouth off to them, cuss them out not matter what their position is. They get smacked in the face with culture shock very quickly. My I.Q. is right up there with theirs but, they still try to belittle you to some extent by using as we say in Kansas "$10.00 Words" Plain english is excepted in the United States still as far as I know. One of my freinds said it best, "They might be smart but, they just have no common sense." I've worked for some of them on what I call Mini Make Believe Ranches. Mainly 12-20 head of cattle crammed out to 10-15 acres of land. I watched so called home projects that they had no business trying- One was building forms for a concrete water trough for the cattle. The man was a retired officer from Army Intellegence. The wall form wood was a few millimeters thick, not even plywood. I swear it was wood from vegetable crates. The wood for the reinforcement framing was cheap scrap splittered stuff. This man was making in an excess of a quarter million dollars a year and this is the material and brain work he put into the project. My buddy who was with me looked straight at me and we both busted out laughing at the whole thing. I told my friend to stand back because the cement truck was pourly the mix in the forms and I know the forms are going to bust out and bust out they did. As soon as the forms started giving out the retired officer started yelling to grab scrap wood to jam it in place to stop the leaking. Right then and there we told him that he did not build the forms worth a you know what with some quality new materials. His ego could not take it and replied "Oh it will hold, I know it will I built it right." As I said before, You can be smart but, still have no common sense.
