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Zomg, I had this issue at an event the other day.
It's a baseball game with pizza food trucks. When you arrive you are given 10 tickets which effectively work like cash.
Go to the food truck, order and give tickets. Easy.
There are only two trucks because some had to back out. Lines are long, I'm in line for about 45 minutes, but I'm watching a baseball game nearby so no big deal. Truck I'm at has a giant sign "pepperoni or cheese 4 tickets".
By the time the people just in front of me get to the order taker I hear the conversation
Lady: "I don't know how many tickets I have, how much pizza I can order, but I want 16 pieces of cheese".
Order taker: "you have 40 tickets"
Lady: "what does that mean?"
45 minutes in line specifically for food, she doesn't read the sign, count her tickets, prepare a plan, nothing.
Well if the average Americans reading proficiency is the same as a 4th grader some of them straight up can't read the signs.
Yeah, you gotta remember plenty are at collegiate reading levels, so the low end has got to have plenty of real doozies to average out that low
Lol that's why the line was so long in the first place. Probably half the people in that line did the same thing.
Which is exactly true. I met up with the truck owner as he has a brick and mortar near my library. He said like 50% of people had no idea what to do when they got there.
Dude said he made a killing though, he was there like 4 hours and made 1400 bucks.