He lost me at "I hunt and have a gun"

I gave this a down vote too as he just went on and on way too much and it became more like a self serving sermon to tell the world how brilliant he thinks he is and far less like teaching the mother the error of her ways. I would have just said to the mother "did you get a education?" She would probably have said an emphatic "yes". And I would have happily replied "Me too and one of the best things I was taught was never judge a book by its cover", and walked away.

This never happened people. Utter b******t. Its just an excuse for people like this to brag. Self absorbed k**b.

During the recession I worked three jobs, largely because I had to pay down student loans and I couldn't find a full time job that would pay my bills. I totally have a woman say to her kid "this is why you stay in school" when referring to me. I just said "Ma'am I have a Bachelors Degree, welcome to the recession".

I was rooting for this guy til he mentioned his rights to hunt.

yes, of course, the lady and her girl silently stayed through all that 30 mins re-written lecture you gave them and then left educated without saying a word. seems legit.

and yet instead of saying this to the woman he goes home and posts it to the net where that woman will never see it......

Most of you may not like this but: 1) you are not in the position to be an educator in another family life. 2) when you are a parent even the blue sky is a reason to say: remember to stay to school. 3) noody should judge another person from his apparence. May be the mother used him to teach the wrong lesson this time but how do you know she is not a mother of 10 and may be she was just tired? She could use him toto say: baby remember to wash your face. Man youmano are no supermanmoney... you dont have a secret identity

Education does not equal intelligence, it is merely a compliment to it.

People (Americans) are going to hate me for this but I feel like too many people need to go to social media and complain and then get a pat in the back. Also, the need to take out the military card pisses me off. The only thing the US military does is put us in danger in Europe.

Soon we will share how awesome we are because we cook/clean the house / go to school or work and soon afterwards we'll be rubbing into other peoples faces that we breathe. Stop sharing just to be praised. Cause that's how this one looks. And if you brag, do it modestly.

I used to work at a public library, and come from a family full of blue collar educated workers. It's easy to tell the difference between a person who is dirty from today's work and someone who just doesn't follow good hygiene. For one thing, people who are covered in dirt but you can't smell from more than a couple inches away, probably got dirty working today.

And if that story gets being made into a movie Adam Sandler will be playing the leading man.

I liked you until you said you enjoy shooting and killing things.

I’m sorry is this a joke? This is like the mildest form of prejudice an immigrant or black American can hope for on a daily. Is this man upset because the mother wasn’t white?

Best article ever!! Thank you. Hope Many read it and take heart!....and learn a lesson.

Someone certainly needs a lot of validation!

Frankly, the same thing goes for older people, or even older fat people. I happen to be both, but that doesn't make me stupid. I also have a college degree, and a lifetime of working with people in other jobs. Worse yet, because I have a Southern accent, my IQ drops ten points in some people's estimation when they hear it.

Actually there's something called a first impression and you can't really blame them for thinking that way when even you, yourself think you're dirty.

He was a medic and saw all of the death, blood and guts. It blows my mind, he knows how fragile life is including animals. How can he kill them? What must he be thinking when he reads these posts. A little jab to his huuuuuge ego

Thank you for your service

i was returning from 9 days fighting fires and we stopped for some groceries. We were still in our uniforms- yellow button down shirts and green pants. We had washed up. As we walked to the store, a kid asked his mom who we were. She said quite loudly, "they're convicts." -youre welcome for our service. would have felt worst if we were people of color. Assumptions

I don't see why he addressed the mother at all. It wasn't as if he was ever going to see her again, at least not by choice, so why go to the lengths of "teaching her a "lesson"? All he did was reinforce that he could be a bit of a jerk, despite being well educated and having served his country. My younger younger brother has 3 degrees, two of them in criminal justice, and he built an amazing career once out of the Army. He's retired now, but he never once boasted to anyone about all his education, nor did he feel the need to "teach" a lesson to unknowing, but perhaps judgmental, outsiders. Just leave things alone---nobody really cares what you do for a living, nor how well (or not) educated you are so long as you don't bother others in any criminal manner.

When my son was a baby in hospital I had an argument with the head of paediatrics, As he left he told the intern that they need to learn to ignore first time mothers from the hood. Ok dude I was a VP at a major bank with a degree. I was dressed in jeans and a tee shirt because my son vomited constantly. I laid the baby in his crib and headed out. I told the intern that he should learn to judge people after a conversation and not before. That judgement often is wrong when it comes to parents of sick children. He could choose to learn from an anchient imbisile or from educated parents, and that was his choice. This happened in the hallway of a major hospital. The interns and nurses were wonderful afterwards. The doctor I never saw again.

It happened to my mother, she is a cashier. She made him cry tears of blood