re: Adults who can't read

Many years ago, I worked with a black dude in his mid 40's that couldn't read. We worked for a construction company, I was a heavy machine operator, he was a laborer and he always caught a ride with me to work. Whenever we broke for lunch, he'd pick up a newspaper and sit down with it, pretending he knew how to read in front of the other guys. I never said a word to anyone that he couldn't read.