Saturday, July 31, 2010

No More Inside Voice


What is with kids these days? Also, GET OFF MY LAWN!

Seriously - the screaming. Enough. You want to play outside and scream bloody murder? OK - here's your bloody murder - happy to oblige.

We are *surrounded* by screaming kids on all sides. Across the street, both next door neighbors and the neighbors behind us. All. Have. Screaming. Fugging. Kids.

It's not a fun, gleeful scream of joy - it's balls out screaming like their heads are on fire and their tiny hands are exploding in front of their eyes. I'm currently shopping for a high-powered tranquilizer rifle if you know where I can find one.

I remember when I was little and played outside. There was no screaming unless my brother Peter was stabbing me in the eye with a red hot poker, which only happened a few times.

When my brothers and I played together, the only screaming was from our mother if we were getting too close to the flowers or about to break a window.

Even when rocketing down the incredibly safe Slip 'n Slide®, hurtling straight into a hedge of sharp juniper bushes, there was no screaming. Crying maybe, but no screaming.

When my brother fell backward & broke his wrist, there was no screaming. When he slammed his knee into a sprinkler head and split it wide open, there was no screaming. When he fell head-first out of the pine tree and onto the driveway, there was no screaming.

So, it would seem, kids today are total pussies that have no imagination and so little intelligence, all they can do to express themselves is scream. What a joy they must be to live with.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Children today know only two noises: whining and screaming. They whine to get food, toys, TV, or whatever it is that they're not getting. They scream to drown out the howling hollow despair of their empty, imagination-less brains.

Hazel Nootsmaak said...

And they're always sick with something. I see posts constantly on FB about peoples' kids having colds, flus, etc.

My brothers & I and our friends were rarely sick (physically, that is). We got the big stuff - walking pneumonia, mono, strep - but rarely did we have colds or the flu.

Weak! They're all weak I tell you!!!