What are you bored for?

[candyshopgirl]

So What is this attitude that all the kids have nowadays(god I'm old).
They act and talk just like they are bored out of their minds.I've had students come in and they throw money at me and stand the whole time rolling their eyes. If they are bored now wait until they have to work 40 hours plus a week,pay bills,and manage their households. You don't have time or can't afford to be bored.

[MoxisPilot]

It's nothing new under the sun.

There's a Calvin and Hobbes strip from the 90's which pokes fun at it. The conversation goes something like:

Calvin: "I'm being cool."
Hobbes: "You look bored."
Calvin: "When you're cool, the world bores you."

[Sheldonrs]

Whenever i see some kid acting like that or just being rude or a jerk, I take great comfort in knowing that my generation and those before me have screwed up the planet so bad that it probably won't recover but I'll be dead before it gets really bad and the young jerks will have to buy their air in canisters and Soylent Green won't be just a movie.

Is it wrong for me to feel this way?

[Apathy]

Is it wrong for me to feel this way?

Probably. But you're not alone.

[AriRashkae]

the young jerks will have to buy their air in canisters

Peri-Air?

[Bosch]

I see two versions of teenagers in my store(and I am just going to turn 35) the ones who are with their friends and are just being stupid teenagers, loud and silly but harmless. The ones that are quiet and with the huge backpacks tend to make me very customer focused on them. And funny they tend to run out of the store - we have a large shoplifting issue that we are working on.

[wagegoth]

Whenever i see some kid acting like that or just being rude or a jerk, I take great comfort in knowing that my generation and those before me have screwed up the planet so bad that it probably won't recover but I'll be dead before it gets really bad and the young jerks will have to buy their air in canisters and Soylent Green won't be just a movie.

Is it wrong for me to feel this way?

I think we'd be lucky to end up with a Brave New World.

[Seshat]

At least we've passed 1984.

[Buglady]

Oh! That made me remember - I had a moment yesterday when one of my very nice coworkers complained about a movie she had rented to watch with her nephew. "I thought it would be about animals but it wasn't what I expected," she said. "They all talked... I thought it was like Babe but it was actually really weird and mean. My nephew didn't understand and he was upset."

"Um." I said "you don't by chance, mean Animal Farm? By George Orwell?"

"I don't know who that is... it was weird though. Not what I expected."

[bainsidhe]

Peri-Air?

Boo. Just....boo.

[AriRashkae]

Boo. Just....boo.

My husband just discovered the cartoon version on Hulu a few weeks ago.

[Estil]

If they are bored now wait until they have to work 40 hours plus a week,pay bills,and manage their households. You don't have time or can't afford to be bored.

Personally I found that to be easier than being in college. Then again I had a full time load AND was working almost 6 hour nights and all day Saturday at the time.

[Sheldonrs]

Oh! That made me remember - I had a moment yesterday when one of my very nice coworkers complained about a movie she had rented to watch with her nephew. "I thought it would be about animals but it wasn't what I expected," she said. "They all talked... I thought it was like Babe but it was actually really weird and mean. My nephew didn't understand and he was upset."

"Um." I said "you don't by chance, mean Animal Farm? By George Orwell?"

"I don't know who that is... it was weird though. Not what I expected."

You might want to warn her about "Fritz, the Cat" before it's too late.

[Can I Help Your A$$?]

My mom said that, back in the early 50's, she and her sisters used to do that, too. My grandmother would point out that "there's no excuse for being bored. Only stupid people get bored."

Of course, Grandma lived through the depression (just like we will! ) and lived on a farm. She didn't get a chance to be bored. But, seeing as my mom lived on a productive farm, too, she also got bored.

Teenagers, they tend to have short attention spans, just like 8 year-olds. And these days, they grow up expecting to have every friggin' hour scheduled for them because my silly Gen-X generation is too scared to let them figure it out. NBo wonder they're bored. They need someone to hold their hands.

Wait until none of us has money. We'll be bored until we learn how to dance and play music ourselves, around campfires again.

[Mnemjian]

Kids today!!! I might be part of this generation Y or whatever they're calling it, but I don't condone the ridiculous behavior many of my peers have. Like, what happened to manners? They're going the way of the dodo. But I know a lot of kids who are not jerks so thankfully there is some light in this world yet

You might want to warn her about "Fritz, the Cat" before it's too late.

Hehehe... and don't forget Watership Down. (I know I can't...) "Auntie what's that red stuff coming out the bunny's face?!? "