Kids These Days

Excerpt from a conversation I had with a cantankerous old woman:

"Kids are so bombarded with things on screens these days. From televisions to video games, it's too much." [I was in complete agreement with her until she continued in a very morbid and masocistic line of thinking]
"These days kids aren't exposed to the pain of boredom and loneliness that people in my generation faced."

I was afraid that if I didn't cut our conversation off soon she would start telling me about the tv-less, friendless, sunlight-depraved childhood she forced on her poor son.

"He's an A student", she claimed.

Yea, we all know what those kids are like.

Bottom line: Books are for squares, and apparently for disturbed loners.

-Jordan