Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site SCIRTP.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!rti-sel!SCIRTP!todd From: todd@SCIRTP.UUCP (Todd Jones) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: noisy kids in restaurants... (and KIDS) Message-ID: <217@SCIRTP.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 12:38:06 EDT Article-I.D.: SCIRTP.217 Posted: Mon Jul 15 12:38:06 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 20:51:08 EDT References: <220@cuuxa.UUCP> <620@adobe.UUCP> <15640@watmath.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: SCI Systems, Research Triangle Park, NC Lines: 46 > Here's a summary of the conversation I had with my friend: > > Colin: Dave, it's midnight, don't they have school??? > Dave: School's out for the summer !! > Colin: Oh fuck... > > Something is seriously wrong when *I* start saying things like that... Don't worry, you'll outgrow it. > I'm probably sounding pretty righteous, aren't I, well so what. > What the hell is it with kids (or *IS* it parents) that they can't > take some pride in at least looking human. I'm only twenty > years old (Haha, i'll bet you thought i was middle-aged) and I > can't stand even being on the same bus as the little cretans. > They bother me, and yes, they are menacing-looking. > > Doubtless, most of these spotted horrors will in the future become > honest, hard-working individuals who will buy colour television sets > and the rest of the rigamarole associated with leading plebian existances. > > But in the meantime, they are a bunch of lazy-stupid kids who have > no imagination to do anything else other than follow the > big-mouthed leader. What really gets me is the parents who bitch about > little johnny-duh-m-shit not being able to get any sort of job. > NO BLOODY WONDER when he looks like some reprobate from a prison > camp. I wouldn't hire him. > Colin Biggin > University of Waterloo > > "I woke up, read the Toronto Star, and discovered I was a 'yuppie'" If you didn't dress like a subhuman fool in junior high and high school, you must have been the laughing stock of your class. Kids dress, behave, appear the way they do because their parents feel the same way you do and forbid their kids to dress, behave, appear that way. So what's any self-respecting rebelious pre-teen or teenager supposed to do? ||||| || || [ O-O ] Todd Jones \ ^ / {decvax,akgua}!mcnc!rti-sel!scirtp!todd | _ | |___|