| I'm a driving instructor, so I'm 'at the coal face' so to speak when it comes to working in close proximity with 17yr olds. Here's a couple of examples..
A young girl (a history student, no less) got into my car about a month ago, after having been at Uni all that morning studying how the Nazis had come into power in Germany. I soon turned the talk towards the Holocaust.
"What's the Holocaust?" says she.
"What was the Holocaust?" says I. "Are you serious?" She stared at me blankly. She'd never even heard of it.
After explaining to her how the Jews were rounded up and gassed in large numbers during the war, she shook her head in disbelief. No! Surely not! How could that happen?
"Have you never heard of Belsen?" says I. "Auschwitz? Dachau?"
"No! Never."
And so it went. I don't know who was most in disbelief - her in hearing the story for the first time, or me in relating it.
Another..
On the day the Pope died, I said to a young girl who'd just got into my car;
"I see the Pope has just been given the Last Rites."
"The Pope? Who's that?"says she.
"Who's the Pope?" says I. "Are you serious?" She stared at me blankly.
(A-Level students, both of 'em, and the foregoing is absolutely true. God help us!)
[Edited on 8-4-2005 by weeveetwin]  | 
08-Apr-2005, 15:51 
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