I was just sitting here reading the posts and thinking if I have anything to say and it sorta creeped up on me that the summer is almost half over and yet, I have not seen kids running around doing the traditional summer stuff. To go around my neighborhood in the day, you would think that the kids are all in school or something. It is really creepy. I have no kids of my own, but if I did, I would give them two choices; 1. After breakfast, they could leave the house on their bicycles and go out and have fun all day, or 2. Mope around the house and running up the electric bill with Playstation, X-Box, chatting on the computer for 3 hours hen-pecking 5 minutes worth of dialog to some dumbass kid that lives just 85 yards up the street, until I lose my mind and send him out of the house on a stretcher. I see this shit every day and it makes me sick. I have seen just one, only one stinkin Lemonade Stand the whole damn summer. What the hell is up with kids these days? O.K., I can give credit to some kids up on 19th Avenue. They come from wealthy families and were the first on their block to own Jackass the movie on DVD. These charming idiots take their father's expensive riding mowers and soup up the engines and race them all around the block. It is pretty funny to see them do it, but outside of that, there is really not much going on. Sure, it is pretty damn hot outside, but that is no excuse. I think all this "computer age" stuff has turned our nation's children into a bunch of overweight junkfood gobbling candy-ass retards that have to have their entertainment spelled out and packaged to them, and cannot survive more than 15 seconds outside of a esotheric Climate Controlled environment. Lord God, Mother Mary and Sonny Boy Jesus, if I were to ever see a child catch and skin a fish to take home and actually eat, I would probably fill my pants right on the spot!! A lot of this is coming from a buzz that is in the very air down here in Sunny St. Pete Florida. The apathy and complacency all around, the children cooped up in all those empty boxes they call home, the growing pot culture and the anti-drug coalition that goes with it is all adding up to the resurgence of another generation of "Drug Treatment Facilities."
I can see the signs stirring like bits of paper caught in a swirling dust devil on a hot summer day. A hot summer day where I should be seeing children playing outside and enjoying their freedom, but I dont. This scares the hell out of me. How about the rest of you fine people?