Melanie Gumpotts, a Senior Cheerleader at Donald Rumsfeld High School in Odessa, Texas, writes:
Dear Grammer Genious,
At the Seven Eleven on the corner there is a cardboard sign on the door with "NO BAREFEET" written on it with a sharpy.
I know it's quoting somebody because the quote marks are real big. I've been writing a term paper for Mrs. Eckolm's class and I love quotations but I don't know who are they quoting, and neither does the lady at the 7-11 counter in there. She laughed when I asked her. Do you know? Also I can't find barefeet in the dictionary.
Melanie Gumpotts, Senior Cheerleader
Dear Melanie,
What -- you don't know? I can't BELIEVE you don't know! It's from Hamlet, of course. The "play within a play," Act II, Scene II:
“No barefeet up and down, threat’ning the flame
With bisson rheum, a clout about that head
Where late the diadem stood, and for a robe,
About her lank and all o’er-teemed loins,
A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up;—"
Doesn't that ring a bell? It DOESN'T?? Don't they teach you kids ANYTHING anymore? No wonder this country is being run, in turns, by the evil, the feeble-minded, and the craven.
The 7-11 counter lady laughed at you because she couldn't BELIEVE you didn't recognize the Shakespearean reference on her entry door. She is apparently casting her pearls before swine.
No offense.
The Grammer Genious
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