Reggie is a man who works with Sedaris at a cleaning company. Proud of his intelligence, Reggie frequently boasts that he has an IQ of 130 and that, because of this, he deserves to have a better job. He also suggests that Sedaris is unintelligent and that he’ll never be good at doing anything but sweeping. Years later, Sedaris thinks of Reggie when he decides to take an IQ test and ends up receiving a painfully low score.
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Reggie Character Timeline in Me Talk Pretty One Day
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Smart Guy
...this. While working as a cleaner in his mid-twenties, he works alongside a man named Reggie who won’t stop talking about how smart he is, constantly bragging that he has an...
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...as a cleaner—but he doesn’t sweep, he uses a vacuum cleaner. He doesn’t know what Reggie is up to these days, but he thinks of him when he decides to take...
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