[Lamplighter]

From Bill Hicks (edited)

I've noticed a certain anti-intellectualism going around this country;
since about 1980, coincidentally enough. … I was in Nashville, Tennessee,
and after the show I went to a Waffle House.
I'm not proud of it, but I was hungry. And I'm sitting there eating and reading a book.

I don't know anybody, I'm alone, so I'm reading a book.
The waitress comes over to me like, [gum smacking] "What'chu readin' for?"
I had never been asked that. Not "What am I reading?", but "What am I reading for?"

Goddangit, you stumped me. Hmm, why do I read?
I suppose I read for a lot of reasons, one of the main ones being so I
don't end up being a fucking waffle waitress.