wuss nation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/24/AR2007102400614.html
Pity the Posties, having to deal with all that spooky scary stuff for one night a year - poor babies! Not like those tasteful child-like celebrations the writer claims to remember from decades age - which I very much doubt, (I have a running wager that everyone at the Post is under 25 years old, or acts like it). When the writer wistfully talks of yesteryear's tricks, she only mentions toilet paper on houses, not the fires, overturned outhouses, etc. that caused an outcry in the earlier part of this century. So much for Edenic innocense. Only a Postie lives in such hyper-bourgeois circumstances as to be worried about a prop that costs over $2700 and is used once a year affecting their lives. Yea, your average reader sure has to worry about THAT little puppy showing up. (I am still fuming about an article a couple of weeks back babbling about how JUST EVERYONE was getting their own personal chef, and how ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL it was. Not all of us, unlike the millionaires at the Post, were born in a Gtown Salon. They need to get a grip).
At any rate, I'm sure all the helicopter parents are now rushing around, making sure that precious Junior is kept locked up next Wednesday, lest he see all the spookiness and turn into a gibbering mass of worthless cowering flesh, (which is to say, imitating his wuss parents). People get more and more pathetic.
Pity the Posties, having to deal with all that spooky scary stuff for one night a year - poor babies! Not like those tasteful child-like celebrations the writer claims to remember from decades age - which I very much doubt, (I have a running wager that everyone at the Post is under 25 years old, or acts like it). When the writer wistfully talks of yesteryear's tricks, she only mentions toilet paper on houses, not the fires, overturned outhouses, etc. that caused an outcry in the earlier part of this century. So much for Edenic innocense. Only a Postie lives in such hyper-bourgeois circumstances as to be worried about a prop that costs over $2700 and is used once a year affecting their lives. Yea, your average reader sure has to worry about THAT little puppy showing up. (I am still fuming about an article a couple of weeks back babbling about how JUST EVERYONE was getting their own personal chef, and how ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL it was. Not all of us, unlike the millionaires at the Post, were born in a Gtown Salon. They need to get a grip).
At any rate, I'm sure all the helicopter parents are now rushing around, making sure that precious Junior is kept locked up next Wednesday, lest he see all the spookiness and turn into a gibbering mass of worthless cowering flesh, (which is to say, imitating his wuss parents). People get more and more pathetic.
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