Tonight, while driving home I am on the main drag that takes me directly to the lake development I live in. I come around a blind corner and up a small blind hill. As I am cresting the top of this hill doing about 50 mph I take note of three young girls walking down the street on the other side. I think nothing of it but then realize that two fo the three are "out of place".

The one girl is walking the double yellow and is sticking her tongue out at me while the other is in the middle of the other lane. Mind you, these three idiots are taking up a lane reserved for vehicles doing 40+ miles an hour. Not to mention that this road is pretty windy; my sister totaled her car leaving my house one night on the hill I was barreling up. They were approaching a blind corner and a blind hill.

I immediately hit the brakes rolled down the window and tore this girl a new a-hole.

The thing that pisses me off even more is that she didn't care. I was the idiot in her eyes. I became even more annoyed and began to swear and call her names trying to get my point across. I felt like throwing the van in reverse and running all three of them over to put them out of their own and my misery.

I don't understand it. When I was growing up we knew better than go play in the middle of a major street and we had the common sense to move when cars were coming down on us on the back roads. Hell...we stayed to the extreme side of the road whilst walking down it unless it was in our lake. These three delinquents and those that live IN this little lake development don't move out of the way.

Is this a parenting thing? I'm gonna go ahead and say yes. I think these three girls should be beaten to within inches of their lives but I also think the parents should have their reproductive organs removed from their bodies and they too should be beaten with the very same organs they used to make their little rat spawn.

Looking around me now after having my own daughter I do not want her to grow up like these kids today. I am afraid and worried for her, even though I have many years to teach her correctly I still fear for her. What have I done? What have I brought upon my own flesh and blood, my daughter?

It's always the parent's fault, although I don't think kids today are really any worse than they were before, it just seems like it to you since you aren't a kid anymore. Kids always have and always will do stupid stuff.

Its because they never learned discipline.

Either they are disabled, or are ouotright dumbasses. I'm 13 and I know no one that stupid.

You shouldn't really judge the whole of "youth today" aka generation Y by 3 random idiots on the road. Gen Y are really awesome, the majority of us anyway but every generation has its idiots.

Were they drunk?

Most kids are idiots these days,but walking in the middle of a major road is beyond being an idiot..

Natural selection. The kid who swallows too many marbles doesn't grow up to have his own kids. :shrug:

It's this damned rap music that these kids are listening to!

the best you can do is raise her right

though, she may hate you for it during her teens

seriously though, it's all fun and games until some little brat get's run over then it's a major tragedy and they might think twice about doing that. It's depressing, but it's also just the times, every previous generation hates the newest, it goes back to the time of socrates

what was his quote? someone on the forums posted it
"What is wrong with the youth? they create chaos and disorder, they resist the wisdom of their elders and ignorance, fires and riots will surely run through the streets" ~Socrates I think

I don't think it's always the parent's fault. Sometimes people just do stupid things.

They're 'youth'. That is the problem.

And they most certainly don't understand blind curves...

You call them idiots, then you allow them to drag you into their game where they trick you to participate with equal narrow-mindedness and stupidity. What does that say about you?

The lesson is; Don't let other control you, when they behave like idiots you ignore them and walk away with your head held high, knowing that you're better than that.

I doubt your own daughter will be like that, because you'll raise her differently. She will however have to deal with even more idiots than you, because idiots multiply faster. So yeah, have more kids to rebalance it in her favour.


You shouldn't have shouted and sworn at them though. Not to spare their feelings or anything, but because you have to be superior to these people and not rise to their stupidity. When they learn to drive they'll learn how freaking terrifying it is to have retarded pedestrains all over the place.

I don't think kids have changed much.
When i was a kid we used to cause chaos. if some advlt told us off, they could expect the same.
You've changed... not the youth.

And when that doesn't work, you annihilate them with a thousand punches. Or your car.

Darwin will take care of them.

Sadly, it will be some hapless motorist who will be blamed for their stupidity.

I can't believe school zones are as low as 15 mph in some places. I grew up with (at most) a crossing guard. Kids were taught to look both ways and to not cross the street against traffic. Did we do stupid stuff? Yeah, but we knew it wasn't the motorist's fault if they hit us.

Carry a paintball gun in your car, show 'em what's what.

While those kids were indeed looking for trouble, you shouldn't have stooped down to their level.

About a month ago I saw a kid jaywalk right into an oncoming car luckily they braked in time, the girl just gave them the finger...

This would be a very good thing to go with.

Unfortunately this is not the case. Kids these days deserve a FALCON PUNCH.

Saw a 25 year old get hit by a truck as he bolted into a 'stop' pedestrian signal.

[edit] not the same, I know.

Recently some kid threw a water balloon at my car from up on a hill while I was going 40.

Wasn't too mad though, it was a pretty damn good throw.

They've deserved one all along.
Seriously, I haven't seen a single example on here of something myself and friends didn't do when we were kids.
Most of my stories wouldn't even be allowed on these pages without a moderator swooping in... advlts have complained about kids forever. Isn't it way more likely that advlts lose touch as they age, than that kids are different every generation?

Well, clearly there was a parenting issue when you were a kid too; I NEVER advocated violence and torture against youths and their parents for bad parenting when I was your age.





Pwnt.



FYMFI: Kids have always svcked. They don't svck more now that you're an advlt, just like cartoons don't svck more now that you're an advlt. It's because you're no longer a kid, and are now an advlt. Whether you're choosing to ignore clear instances from your childhood where you acted like a dike, or whether you just never did stupid things like that because you were one of the few un-svcky ones, it does not mean that kids didn't svck when you were a kid. My dad tells me about the crap he did as a kid: tying frogs to his bicycle wheel and riding down the road; shoving fire crackers in frog's mouths and lighting them; seeing how long it takes for a frog to drown.


... Come to think of it, my dad was kind of a jerk to frogs.


What about the kids of the 70's? Did their parent's complain about how "All of these stupid kids these days aren't racist AT ALL! It's utterly atrocious to see this level of caring for black people our children have! I take this as proof that society is degrading with every passing generation."


Anyway, violent crimes and youth crimes have been steadily going down over the past 50 years. My generation is wussier than any generation before it.

Kids will always be the mischievous bastards they are, and advlts will always be grumpy, all-serious corporates.