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Speaker 1: I follow the university's rules and regulations, yet they want

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Speaker 1: to not let me graduate.

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Speaker 2: What you're talking about, university? Come on, I'm regulations. Come on.

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Speaker 1: This is a story my father in law told about

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Speaker 1: his time in college. I'm not sure if it's actually malicious,

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Speaker 1: but thought it would fit here. And it's my first

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Speaker 1: post on the sub and I'm on a mobile device.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for telling us.

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Speaker 3: Love mobile devices.

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Speaker 1: So when Pop was an underground, his university required students

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Speaker 1: to take four semesters of a foreign language, which actually

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Speaker 1: UCLA has to accept. If you do engineering, then you

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Speaker 1: don't have to take a foreign language. Oh you speak

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Speaker 1: computer speak computer boop, beep boop. This would have been

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Speaker 1: in the late nineteen forties.

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Speaker 2: By the way.

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Speaker 1: Pop was not great at learning languages, but managed to

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Speaker 1: get through the first two semesters, but French three was

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Speaker 1: too much for him.

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Speaker 2: And he failed the class.

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Speaker 1: Pop did not want to after retake it, so foreshadowing

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Speaker 1: his future career as a lawyer, he read through the

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Speaker 1: graduation requirements carefully and then registered for French four. First

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Speaker 1: day of term, he walks into the class, which was

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Speaker 1: taught by the same professor who taught French three. The

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Speaker 1: professor looks at him and says, mister Pop, what are

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Speaker 1: you doing here? I thought I gave you a failing

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Speaker 1: grade last term in French three?

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Speaker 2: You did, Sir Pop replies politely.

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Speaker 1: Then why are you in French four, asked the professor,

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Speaker 1: sounding rather annoyed. Well, Sir Pop says, respectfully. The requirement

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Speaker 1: says I have to take four semesters of a foreign language.

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Speaker 1: It says nothing about passing the classes.

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Speaker 2: Ha.

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Speaker 1: The professor glares at him, sighs, and says, mister Pop,

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Speaker 1: if I gave you a D in this class, will

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Speaker 1: you go away and never come back to my class again? Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: Sir Pop says happily and cheerfully leaves the classroom, never

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Speaker 1: to return. The following year, the university catalog stated that

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Speaker 1: students must take and pass four semesters of a foreign language.

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Speaker 1: Pop was terrific and gave the best hugs. Honestly, I

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Speaker 1: didn't have in laws. I just had another set of

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Speaker 1: wonderful parents. Miss you guys.

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Speaker 2: Wow, dude, that's awesome. That's luring your way out of

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Speaker 2: that one. Great for real, for real lawyering.

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Speaker 3: And and you know you're in early when you literally

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Speaker 3: point out I mean like someone probably wrote it and

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Speaker 3: just assumes like, oh, he meant take in past, but

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Speaker 3: they just wrote it ye take Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But you know this is this is the law we're

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Speaker 1: talking about, university law and rules, baby,