Neal, they told me that if I wasn’t able to pass the test of the French “verbes irréguliers “ (French was the first foreign language I learned to write at school besides Latin) at the age of 12 that I will end up working in a factory. That scared me! I still hate French grammar.
Well your story reminds me of that. And my plumber is more expensive than my doctor. The plumber usually charges at least the double and can’t even fix things. My doctor on the contrary compliments me on my excellent health and my Mediterranean diet, he is nice : 100% Italian.