Besides the obvious perks of adulthood like the liquor and the willful participation in sex...I don't wish I was a kid again because the teenagers and preteens that I've been coming into contact with lately although mildly amusing and somewhat charming have been leaving me shaking my head. I can't honestly speak about young men as I can only reference intelligence I have gathered while eaves dropping on public transportation but with the girls, I have had first hand invitations into the brains of intellectually challenged.
I know that this seems harsh, so I will begin at the beginning. I'm minding my own business riding the bus to work one morning around 9:30am - so I am puzzled to find myself surrounded by middle schoolers but even more unfortunate to find myself smack dab in the middle of a three way conversation between 13 year old boys. The conversation started off innocently enough..."what'd you get on that test?"...What ensued would shock and amaze me!
13 year old trifecta
"oh damn that sucks....so you got a 70? yea! How much did you need to stay in honors? A 76%...Damn homie thats rough...How are you going to swing that? I'm glad I only needed a 65%."
Since when is a 76% honorable? where and to whom? and can we shoot them? Anyway moving on they managed to leap from mediocrity as the standard into a lascivious banter that I won't quote about hitting that....can you spell "hitting that" whilst making 60s in 7th grade? What is going on in these damn schools. Although, I was thoroughly disgusted with their utter lack of intelligence and/or understanding of what education should be I have had not one but two seventeen year old girls who shall remain nameless- shatter my hope for this generation z are they? I'm not sure but they should be nicknamed generation dumb!
One of the aforementioned female assailants [and yes I said assailant, they robbed me of my hope and blind naivety about the next generation] tried to convince me that she could take the bar exam with a HS diploma. If that wasn't enough of a slap in the face to any educational system the other one was all packed up and ready to head off to a fictional university that she'd set her hopes on whilst watching the movie that featured it.
At first I thought to myself, maybe its me...these kids today seem to lack any common and/or book sense and I started to think- almost like my granny would say...back in my day you needed to have one or the other to survive! But my day was less than ten years ago...WTH!!!!!!!!!
It can't be me, can it?
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