Life in the slow lane: a traveler to Sao Paulo might wonder why so many drivers can be seen doing such menial tasks as shaving, watching movies, or playing video games while at the wheel.
You will never arrive at the state in life where you're too important to help with menial tasks. It's a vital part of your character curriculum.
Jesus specialized in menial tasks that everyone else tried to avoid: washing feet, helping children, fixing breakfast, and serving lepers.
Jesus - someone called by the reverential terms "Teacher and Lord" - performed a menial task on persons well beneath him on the social ladder!
Being relegated to only menial tasks such as making copies, collating mailings, or functioning as the proverbial "go-for" does occur.
And, as one would expect of a 19th-century gentleman, he was happy to pay others to carry out menial tasks for him, such as stoking his fire and polishing his shoes.
Not mentioned here is the fifth and lowest order, which consists of the "untouchables", who perform menial tasks considered to be defiling.
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