Mr Falafel, what did you do to pass the time when you were 13/18 ? I would like to take this opportunity to explain what I did. After school on Mondays and wednesdays, I'd arrive home, smile loving at my parents and tell them all about my day, I'd go upsatairs and tidy my room like I'd promised. Then off I'd trot to my gymnastics class, Tuesdays and Thursdays were swimming lessons then 7pm off I'd go to the local Youth club where there was loads to do. Fridays and Saturdays I spent most of my time helping old ladies with shopping and of course Sundays were spent in church followed by all my homework ...............As if
When I was 13+ to be honest most of the time was spent outside the butchers, chippy or library freezing my ass off and bored to tears. Fridays was special though, in groups we'd club together and buy a bottle of Merrydown cider, a couple of bottles of cherry B and of course 10 jps fags and down Pen beach we would go. Saturdays if we had any money we'd go to town for the day and hang round the pier, looking hard and smoking (tut tut) on arriving back in Pen it was back to walking round the village.
I think its unfair to asume these kids are causing trouble just because theres more than 3 of them together. I mean can you honestly say you have been acosted, intimidated or abused in any way by any one of them recently or have you just noticed them (apart from the 1 on the skateboard,) some of them do look scruffy beggers with those dreadful baggy jeans on silly hats but so did we with skin tight jeans, odd coloured leg warmers and "Frankie Says" emblazoned across our t'shirts, that's teenagers!
Things haven't changed for young people and teenagers, the way we percieve them has but thats because we're older.
Teenagers now can't win, they're told their spending far too much time on their games consoles,watching tv or on the internet, then they're told they need to be out and excercise as 1 out of 4 of them are obese. The rest of the time they're told to stay in and keep out of trouble. :rage:
Ok rant over, soap box dissmounted