Illiteracy...in 2005??

I arrived at pharmacy school today to find another asshole parked in my parking spot. Back in January, I won a parking spot located at the front of the lot. It's clearly labeled with a sign that says "RESERVED for P3 Raffle Winner 7am-6pm." The sign is cream and teal in color and definitely is noticable. It has become blatantly obvious to me over the past two weeks that the majority of general public cannot read or cannot see. Last week, some idiot with a Massachusetts license plate parked in my spot. I went to security and had them ticketed. Last Friday, we had this nursing research day thing here at the school. Some stupid nurse staff member parked in my spot. I had her ticketed. Today I pulled in to find some stupid Apple Blossom Festival patron parked in my spot. I had them ticketed. Why is it so hard to read a sign??? Good lord! I have also come to realize that illiteracy affects the old and the young. The pharmacy I am employed at hired a new girl four weeks ago. Around this time I noticed that someone had written the alphabet on the top of our drug bays. We had just had inventory and figured that was why the letters were there. But then I got the pleasure of working with this girl. She was looking for Tegretol in the "A's"!!!! The pharmacist-in-charge asked her what drug she was looking for and she told him. He calmly said, "What letters are atop the bay you are looking in?" She replied, "Aa-Au." He said, "Is that the right bay?" She replied, "I don't know!" He replied, "Try the 'T's'." She giggled and stood in the "A's" for a couple more seconds. Finally she relocated to the "T" bin. It took her 10 more minutes to find the drug. She tries my patience beyond belief! Why are so many people unable to read?? I attribute it to our continual "dumbing down" of the standards in the public education system. Johnny can't do fractions in fourth grade...fine! Let's move fractions to the eigth grade and forget algebra! Perhaps we should forget about fractions all together. Apparently we need to teach the "ABC's" every day of every year in the public education system...how pathetic.