Kids These Days: In Other News, Things Cost More Than They Used To!
AP trots out a poll of old people complaining about rudeness. It seems to have mostly sampled the old, a class of folks notoriously disatisfied with everything but Matlock. Some tidbits:
Carole Krohn, 71, a retired school bus driver in Deer Park, Wash., said she has seen children’s behavior deteriorate over the years, including one time when a boy tossed a snowball at the back of another driver’s head. In this litigious society, she argued, a grown-up risks trouble correcting someone else’s kid.
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Bernard F. Scanlon, 79, of Sayville, N.Y., would like to see one railroad car set aside for cell phone users to ensure peace and quiet for the rest. Amtrak has taken a stab at that by banning cell phones and other loud devices in one car of some trains, especially on chatty Northeast and West Coast routes.
Yeah, like the old guy can even hear the other passengers talking to begin with. Anyhow, Amtrack might be dying. [Hattip Drudge & Asymmetrical Info.]
What extraordinary journalism.