The other day, while I was on the bus, I heard the following conversation between two kids:
kid 1: How many cellphones have you gone through in the past year?
kid 2: Eight.
kid 1: Eight?
kid 2: Yeah, well, my parents keep buying me new ones so...
Marvel at my restraint as I said nothing. That conversation filled me with loathing so powerful I almost found myself grumbling "kids these days...". How on earth did this happen? One cell phone alone is a tremendous strain on the world's resources, but friggin' eight?! Questions flooded my brain: does he have anything to do with the expenses associated with said cellphones? What was he doing with them? Did they break or just become unfashionable? Does he know where cellphones come from? Does he know what they're made of? Is he grateful of his parents' foolish generosity? There is something very wrong with the world if a kid in junior high school can motor through cellphones without a second thought and rely on his parents to keep giving them to him as if they were his god-given right. I couldn't help but wonder what his future will be like, and I have a terrible sinking feeling that he's going to be tremendously successful.
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Ah the glorious youth of today. I heard a similar conversation although it was about the cellphones that these children had gone through (they were all on at least their fifth) and it sounded to me like it was just that they weren't fashionable anymore.
I think we should form a grannies club though because thats about what I was thinking/wanting to say and I am pretty sure that those idears are generally only allowed for people above 45 or so.
Also, methinks you aught to be a journalist or something, most excellent articulation!
Hermy
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