...at the children around you lately?
I don't mean the little ones, I'm talking about those from about ages 10 to 16.
I was sitting in the car waiting for Stan to get his tobacco, in the K-mart parking lot. A woman my age pulled up in a car next to me, and she looked like she had her mom with her, and 2 young boys in the back seat. The boys looked to be maybe 8 years old and the oldest one looked about 10.
Very clean boys, a clean car, the women looked clean, well dressed. They got out and I glanced at the boys faces.. my God, my heart sank. They looked so angry, so ready to lash out. The littlest one reached into his back pocket and withdrew a cell phone and with slow deliberate motions, began to dial, put it to his ear and I swear, both of them literally swaggered, arrogant and cocky, from the car into the store.
The expressions on their faces said "Don't fuck with me." Intentional expressions, put there I felt, to make them look "cool". To make them look like some kind of gang members from some dark club of Satan.
Why do they have to look so mean? Look at the young people you see out there today. I wouldn't stop and ask them for directions, much less stop and give one a ride these days. They absolutely look like they'd just love to get at your throat with their bare hands. How sad.
I'm going to start taking my camera with me to Walmart when I go shopping, or just even down the street to store. I'm going to start taking pics of the expressions on these kids.. it's like they're anger clones. The same affected expression. Raw Hatred. Where are they getting this, what public figure are they mimicking this time?
Ick!