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Yeah, because that means so much coming from a dude who probably dropped out in third grade.

And, you got that fancy college degree dancing around in your dreams. It's nothing more than a fancy piece of toilet paper to wipe your ass with.

Keep on telling yourself that in your double-wide. If education doesn't mean shit, how come all the rich guys have degrees?

And all that money doesn't mean anything the end. Dead is dead, kid.

Yeah. And it's sure hard to live without money. I know there're guys who get by living in caves, but I don't wanna be one of 'em. I like hot water.

I've gotten by without selling my soul to get it. Hot water only lasts as long as the power does, that goes out and you're out of those hot showers.

The rest of the world collapses, and you can kiss those fancy hot showers goodbye.

Yeah, and I'll worry about that when it happens. Just because I like hot showers doesn't mean I can't get by without 'em. But why work myself up over something that's never gonna happen?

It's stupid s'all it is. People've been saying the world's gonna end forever.

Nope!

When? The world already ended, kid. If you need a little reminder; I'll find you a nice girl that will eat you alive.

There you go. You don't plan on wasting your time chasing some unreachable bullshit dream.

What? Wait, sorry, what? Back that train up. Yeah, I've been on a roadtrip and all, but I think I would've noticed something like the world ending.

Wouldn't that depend on the sort of education?

It ain't exactly hard to miss the walking corpses.

The college education bullshit that everyone's spoon fed.

Ah. That.
Well if they're spoon fed in college, yes. The whole point is rather lost. But that would depend what they study. A college degreen in English or Sociology is generally considered useless in the professional world... Medicine, engineering, chemistry on the other hand... a bit more practical.
Then again a good grandmother to teach you the uses of baking soda is underrated.

You're not being PC. They like to be called 'desk jockeys'.

Fuck being PC. I ain't talking about those dumb fucks, I'm talking about zombies.

Then that's what that should be, I don't want some moron to operate on anything living.

Baking soda has plenty of good uses, I didn't need grandma to tell me that.

Are you on something? Zombies aren't real.

... Uh, except in Haiti.

I'd hazard that most morons don't get into medical school.

That doesn't mean they have any common sense to back-up the book smarts. [Fucking around with a virus that turns people into zombies is one of them.]

No, it certainly doesn't. But it keeps them in their parent's basement a few years longer.

I thought the same thing, until a bunch of eggheads unleashed some virus.

Zombies are very real.

If their parents keep them there, or they get tossed out on their ass.

You got any proof of that, besides, y'know, all those guns you've got on you?

Engineering and Med students dont get tossed out on their ass, unless they're failing.

It matters.

[She disagrees, glancing over her shoulder as her hands wring out wet cloth. She shrugs an absent shoulder, shakes the blood out of a shirt.]

Maybe not- a degree or something, no, but... science, language? All that stuff still makes a difference.

[ Daryl's busy making some new bolts for his crossbow. All thanks to a deer was overtaken by some walkers, and there was no way he was gonna challenge a hungry horde. He's still sour by the fact they lost a meal, and having passed a school on his way back didn't help things much. ]

What's one gonna do with all that knowledge? Ain't anyone here to fix things, that's if they can fix things. Oh, wait. That's cause those people are long gone. You're better teachin' folks how to survive in this new world.