Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!cjbiggin From: cjbiggin@watmath.UUCP (Colin Biggin) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: noisy kids in restaurants... (and KIDS) Message-ID: <15640@watmath.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 20:22:10 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.15640 Posted: Mon Jul 8 20:22:10 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jul-85 05:41:51 EDT References: <220@cuuxa.UUCP> <620@adobe.UUCP> Reply-To: cjbiggin@watmath.UUCP (Colin Biggin) Distribution: net Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 72 >> >> I remember sitting in a small cafe/restaurant in Bangor, Maine some >> time last year, when these two kids (maybe 14 or 15) sat down near me >> and had a hot dog. Not long after that, they each pulled out large >> cigars and started to puff on them, for godonlyknows what reason.... >> ... but a couple of kids who were doing it only to impress >> each other was too much for me. Goddamned kids. Kids these days. >> Grumble. Cough. >> This reminds me of something that happened to a friend of mine and myself about two weeks. We went to see a movie starting at 9:30 in the evening. Well, we saw the movie and we left the theatre and guess what greeted us outside; every kid in the Kitchener- Waterloo area. Before I begin my flame, I should point out that I *know* that this does not apply to all 'kids-of-today'. It just seems like it. First, there seemed to be two distinct sets of kids; the trendies, and (groan) the headbangers. I can take the trendies, at least they dress nice, they're just as obnoxious though. They are also the vast minority. My complaint is against the other group... MY GOD, I thought I was going to get killed, or mugged, or worse spoken to by these "fine, upstanding, hopes-of-our-future". Do these kids have parents ?? Do those parents have parents ??? 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... Another thing I noticed was the girls. Why is it that they seem to like sneering, menacing, long-(greasy)-haired guys. The girls are usually tastefully (in a leathery sense) dressed. Their hair is washed (and brushed) and some seem like they actually have a brain. The guys are quite another matter. First of all, they all wear black (with white sleeve) concert shirts bearing the name of some heavy-metal band, blue jeans, a leather jacket, and they all smoke. Not to mention they all hang out in the numerous pin-ball joints that downtown Kitchener abounds with. 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. Well, I'm back in reasonable mode now. I guess all we can do is say "ah kids". Again I *KNOW* this does not apply everywhere or to all. In larger cities, it doesn't seem all that bad. But here in K-W... -- cheers, Colin Biggin University of Waterloo "I woke up, read the Toronto Star, and discovered I was a 'yuppie'"