Archive for October 15th, 2008

Overhearing An Exchange

Yesterday I was in a store in a ritzy-ish part of town running an errand (buying a new shirt) when I saw this well-heeled, personal trainer bodied, hot trophy soccer MILF with her little boy. He had to be maybe three. She was a couple steps ahead of him when out of the blue I heard him say, “You’re a stupid mom.” Again, this kid was probably three.

I was a little stunned to hear a kid say that out of the blue and would have strangled the kid if he was mine, but her reaction was even more stunning. She said, “Oh Matthew [or whatever], you know Santa Claus is listening and he just took a present away from you.” Then they just kept walking around, with him being a little shit and her acting like it was completely normal.

WTF. This little bastard is going to have everything handed to him in life, he’s going to appreciate none of it, and when he turns into a 20-something 7 years in college fuck-up who’s still still sucking on his momma’s teet she’s going to brag about what a fine young man he’s grown up to be.

Between the rich kids pushing their parents around and the poor kids who generally don’t have parents around, my kids’ generation is f-u-c-k-e-d. It really scares me to think what this country is going to be like in 50 years. Thank god I’ll be dead by then (or pretty damn close to it).

Good thing we have Obama to save us, I guess.