spoiled wussies
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/30/AR2006103001297.html
The last time I went trick or treating for candy, I was ten years old, and even then I felt a little twinge of embarrassment - that I was too old for this kind of thing. A few years later, in high school, I had the pleasure of hanging out with some of you reading this on Halloweens, as we went out for UNICEF. Perhaps we did some small amount of good then, and because of that rather "adult" theme, I never felt silly in doing so. But to be in senior high and begging for a Mars Bar?!?! What a crock! Not surprisingly, it's some of the wealthiest kids in one of the wealthiest areas of the country doing so. I would be mortified to be 15 or 17 and out there competing with seven year olds for Milk Duds. And these are brats who want for nothing - they already have their own cars, phones, room, and computers that would be the envy of the NSA. And still they want more. I've certainly dealt with some in the past. They try to cover their immaturity by not wearing costumes*; and there's always the underlying threat that a bunch of teens could trash your yard if they didn't get what they wanted. But it all comes down to a bunch of spoiled oafs blindly immitating five years olds for nothing more than a five year old's treasure - a pack of M&M's. Pathetic greed-heads in a city full of them. Their parents should be ashamed, but they're probably worse.
*The only appropriate one would be wearing a diaper with a large "L" scrawled on their forehead.
The last time I went trick or treating for candy, I was ten years old, and even then I felt a little twinge of embarrassment - that I was too old for this kind of thing. A few years later, in high school, I had the pleasure of hanging out with some of you reading this on Halloweens, as we went out for UNICEF. Perhaps we did some small amount of good then, and because of that rather "adult" theme, I never felt silly in doing so. But to be in senior high and begging for a Mars Bar?!?! What a crock! Not surprisingly, it's some of the wealthiest kids in one of the wealthiest areas of the country doing so. I would be mortified to be 15 or 17 and out there competing with seven year olds for Milk Duds. And these are brats who want for nothing - they already have their own cars, phones, room, and computers that would be the envy of the NSA. And still they want more. I've certainly dealt with some in the past. They try to cover their immaturity by not wearing costumes*; and there's always the underlying threat that a bunch of teens could trash your yard if they didn't get what they wanted. But it all comes down to a bunch of spoiled oafs blindly immitating five years olds for nothing more than a five year old's treasure - a pack of M&M's. Pathetic greed-heads in a city full of them. Their parents should be ashamed, but they're probably worse.
*The only appropriate one would be wearing a diaper with a large "L" scrawled on their forehead.
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