Children

First off, let's start by my saying that children are not my favorite creatures. They are noisy, they leak, they can be disobedient.

I'm currently sitting in Safeway. There are a pair of younglings noisily running about. The girl is okay. She's not that loud. The boy is hell-on-wheels. He's not obedient; he's noisy; he is noisily dis-obedient.

The mother, who looks like she might be out of her teens; by a short time. (Possibly only this year...) is shopping with her mother. Her mother looks harried as well.  Also, the mother, who looks quite young, is a compact, small person. For now, the children are smaller than her ... for now. She doesn't look like she's trying to hang onto her youth, and isn't really the adult. She does look like she's the one in charge. It's possible that she's the stepmother. (The mother of the 2 children commented to her mother "her father isn't even here" indicating the young girl.) The boy may be being disobedient because she "isn't really his mom", but I think he's actually about 2 or 3 years old (I've observed 2 or 3 year old boys; I would never want one.)

The grandmother in this scenario was attempting to get the younglings out to the vehicle, but didn't have any fortune in doing that. they may have left by now; I don't hear them (i.e. the boy)

It's a sad state of affairs in the world when children don't know who their father or mother actually is. That goes down a rabbit trail that has nothing to do with the subject at hand, so I'll leave it alone at that.

The Latest Fashion/Fad

I never much paid attention to "fashion" before. However, currently, there is a fashion that drives me absolutely bananas! I thought fashion couldn't get worse than the plumber-look with waist-bands around the knees. Or, the chains everywhere, or .... a lot of things.

However, the latest fad is wearing a cap and putting a hoodie-Hood over it. I'm uncertain where this actually started, but it's likely to have begun with some rapper. However, it looks like the ultimate in foolishness. (I'll even be politically incorrect: It looks mentally retarded!)

Whoever began it, seems to have thought: "Let's see: how can I make my followers look un-utterably silly? I know! I'll wear a cap, and pull a hood over-top of it!"

I wish there were some way to let these rap-artist-wannabe's know how foolish they look.

Some rap artist has some serious followers. There are a lot of rap-artist clones out there. I'm unsure whether it's because they want to look like a rap artist, or because they agree with the lyrics of the rap-artist songs. (Do rap songs HAVE lyrics?) Why would they want to agree with rap song lyrics, or rap artist lives, or what they perceive rap artists to be? I just don't understand.