I subscribe to a number of academically oriented e-mail lists mostly as an attempt to retain some analytical abilities. My survival job in a local big-box hardware store provides few opportunities in this regard. I do, however, need to exercise some creative thinking to solve the problems presented by some customers. I experience on a regular basis one surprising issue, in relation to remarks found on those academic e-mail lists about college students not properly prepared for college level work, I get a large number of people that don't know what a nut is or what a bolt is (at least they constantly transpose the two). What is perhaps most surprising is that many of these people appear to be employed as "professionals" in one capacity or another and are home owners.