Magda extrapolated from data available...



School trips are my pet peeve.
They seem to always invade the metro at rush hours, push everyone
around, and every single one of them simply *has* to talk to a friend
who happens to be on the opposite side of the carriage - same
behaviour when they enter a shop or a supermarket; Pavarotti singing
at the top of his lungs would NOT be heard.
These are everything but "mindlessly obstructive", believe me.


Well, they should certainly all be killed, alleviating both immediate and
future problems from continued breeding of the species.

The dearth of politness by the young, especially by the young in groups in
public these days, is not simply a "student" problem, but greatly
ascribable to their chicken-hearted, lily-livered parents who have been
conditioned that empowerment and entitlement are due to each and all of
their scabrous offspring. Children require substantial mistreatment, and
profit from occasional or even routine denial of of the most basic
privileges and pleasures.

As a great philosopher once noted..."Nobody promised you a rose garden."

Seriously, society in its toleration of others has developed the mistaken
impression that our culture demands the tolerance of rude, impolite and
discomforting performances by the young. So sensitive are retailers that
they might "offend" a breed of customers that they allow the breed to
routinely offend others.

Can you imagine the positive pleasurable reaction that would be yours if,
while dining in a restaurant where a particularly loud, awkward offensive
child was demonstrating the weakness of character and selfishness of his
parents, the proprietor walked up to the table, announced that he was
picking up the check, and demanded that they take their rude brat and
depart without letting the front door hit their butts on the way out.

How about a step further...A museum satffer who waked up to a techer with a
ob of unruly and obstructive students and ushered them out the door.

Over a few years, I watched the "conversion" of a modest local shopping
mall into a gathering place for adolescents (often ejectees from the lobby
area of a nearby multi-screen theater. Unfortunately, the flood of
teenagers caused the regular customers of a number of the stores within to
go elsewhere. The stores closed, leaving only a handful whose trade came
from the teens. With vacant space and partial rents, the mall closed and
was bulldozed, replaced by annother "Big Box", this time a Target, which
certainly doesn't provide a gathering spot for the young.

I suppose travelers (and others) have been bemoaning the conduct of the
young since the dawn of history, but it's obviously too late to act.

A parent whose daughers have reached adulthood not painlessly for him but
at least without major trauma.

TMO