This evening we were in a Super Target about 5 miles away from our house and I had a really weird experience. Actually, two of them.
First, we were passing a stuffed, talking Care Bear that was a fit’n’fun [or some other name] bear. It actually sang, “Let’s get physical.” What?! I don’t want my nearly three year old daughter walking around my house, our church building, or anywhere singing, “Let’s get physical.” Olivia Newton-John is not on my top ten list of favorite artists either. Does she get royalties for those bears?
Secondly, there were a few bikes for sale at the Super Target that were not locked up. Therefore several young boys took it upon themselves to ride up and down the aisles quickly on the said bicycles. I told them to stop, but they didn’t listen. Then, one of the boys who was chasing the other boy who was riding the bike with a shopping cart finally listened to me saying, “Please stop doing that, it’s not safe.” He found the other boy and said [in the indelible words of Dave Barry, “I am not making this up.”], “The old man over there told us to stop.” I am 27 and will be 28 towards the end of September, but I am not old! I refuse to accept this age discrimination as acceptable behaviour for the youth of America.
Let’s get physical and whip these young lads into shape.
Sadly, it’s not the kids that need the beating – it’s the parents. There’s nothing worse than having to put up with kid’s bad behavior simply because they have crappy parents who think that discipline is something best left to martial artists and the military.
*sigh*
Dave hit it on the head there. Dealing with kids in the youth group, etc., makes it crystal clear who has good, Godly parents and who doesn’t.
BTW, I have become well accustomed to the moniker “Crusty Old Man” around the youth. To compensate, I am careful to act extra-immature when I’m around the kids. 😛
Does this involve extra farting? Fart jokes? Fart spray? Or other things like not bathing regularly? 😉 When I was in Jr. High all of that would have impressed me except for the bathing, which was a tough thing for me to figure out but I noticed it when others didn’t bathe.