The younglings* are sweet enough...
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elfgroveBut dear gods do they need a reality check.
This morning, Leigh was running around trying to clean up the house a bit. No small job alone, but 30mins, an hour max had she, JP, Morgan and I all gotten on it. But no. JP and Morgan made a mess making muffins, got them in the oven, then dissapeared downstairs. Now my brother and I have been known to pull similar stunts at that age, but... We did do housework regularly at that age. These two I've learned, do nothing. They occasionally rinse the dishes in the sink, and keep their rooms semi-clean, and haul their junk out of man areas. But no sweeping, vacuuming mopping, washing dishes, or any other normal chores for them. Not because Leigh hasn't tried getting them to do it, they just won't. I would've been dead meat for behaving like that normally.
Then, this evening at the mall, we go in Hot Topic.
As we walk in, JP says, "Do we have to go? This is a scrode store!"
"What did you say?" Oh god... He's not...
"Only scrodes go in this store!" (Said with much disgust I'd like to add.)
"What's that?" I can't believe he's saying this out loud.
"It's the latest slang word for goths."
"And that's bad?" Do you know how asshole/discriminatory you sound right now!?
"Well, no... But it's just they're..."
"I have several good friends who are goths." And I've known so many people who would beat you up for those comments!
It was just mind-shoking for me. He sounded like some kind of little biggot. And that attitude will hurt people, and in some places/circumstances, get him hurt. He can't behave that way. You just can't.
I dunno if thast makes any sense as to why it upset me, but it did.
Those younglings.... Need to grow up mentally a bit.
* younglings - the term often used in reference to Dave & Leigh's children, JohnPaul and Morgan. Dave & Leigh being my second cousins who I am living with here in Minnesota.
A few quotes:
"Ultimately in my stories, the most horrible creatures of all are the humans themselves." - Kei Kusunoki
"Nice guys finish last, when you are the outcast..." - Green Day
"Men are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them." -Epictetus The Enchiridion
"People only see what they are prepared to see." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saturday, March 24, 1984.
Shermer High School,
Shermer, Illinois, 60062.
Dear Mr. Vernon:
We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong, and what we did was wrong, but we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us. In the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions, you see us as: a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Correct? That's the way we saw each other at 7 o'clock this morning. We were brainwashed.
- The Breakfast Club
This morning, Leigh was running around trying to clean up the house a bit. No small job alone, but 30mins, an hour max had she, JP, Morgan and I all gotten on it. But no. JP and Morgan made a mess making muffins, got them in the oven, then dissapeared downstairs. Now my brother and I have been known to pull similar stunts at that age, but... We did do housework regularly at that age. These two I've learned, do nothing. They occasionally rinse the dishes in the sink, and keep their rooms semi-clean, and haul their junk out of man areas. But no sweeping, vacuuming mopping, washing dishes, or any other normal chores for them. Not because Leigh hasn't tried getting them to do it, they just won't. I would've been dead meat for behaving like that normally.
Then, this evening at the mall, we go in Hot Topic.
As we walk in, JP says, "Do we have to go? This is a scrode store!"
"What did you say?" Oh god... He's not...
"Only scrodes go in this store!" (Said with much disgust I'd like to add.)
"What's that?" I can't believe he's saying this out loud.
"It's the latest slang word for goths."
"And that's bad?" Do you know how asshole/discriminatory you sound right now!?
"Well, no... But it's just they're..."
"I have several good friends who are goths." And I've known so many people who would beat you up for those comments!
It was just mind-shoking for me. He sounded like some kind of little biggot. And that attitude will hurt people, and in some places/circumstances, get him hurt. He can't behave that way. You just can't.
I dunno if thast makes any sense as to why it upset me, but it did.
Those younglings.... Need to grow up mentally a bit.
* younglings - the term often used in reference to Dave & Leigh's children, JohnPaul and Morgan. Dave & Leigh being my second cousins who I am living with here in Minnesota.
A few quotes:
"Ultimately in my stories, the most horrible creatures of all are the humans themselves." - Kei Kusunoki
"Nice guys finish last, when you are the outcast..." - Green Day
"Men are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them." -Epictetus The Enchiridion
"People only see what they are prepared to see." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saturday, March 24, 1984.
Shermer High School,
Shermer, Illinois, 60062.
Dear Mr. Vernon:
We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong, and what we did was wrong, but we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us. In the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions, you see us as: a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Correct? That's the way we saw each other at 7 o'clock this morning. We were brainwashed.
- The Breakfast Club