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From: cjbiggin@watmath.UUCP (Colin Biggin)
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Subject: Re: noisy kids in restaurants... (and KIDS)
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Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 20:22:10 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  8 20:22:10 1985
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>>
>> 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'"