Out of the Mouths of Babes...
04/24/2010
Jared is eleven-years old. Jared is a beautiful boy and may well one day be a real ladies man, a really handsome kid. He has a killer smile and a mouth that won’t quit.
Here’s the scene: His mother is sitting in a recliner watching a movie with John Cusak and Billy Crystal. Cusak is climbing a wall and falls on a cactus. He stands up in obvious pain with a bunch of cactus needles stuck in his crotch. As he bends over to extract them the view from the camera is at his back. Got it?
Jared is seated in a chair across the room from his mother. Jared is also watching this movie. Jared chuckles at the scene aforesaid described. In his own inimitable, 11-year old, middle school vernacular blurts out “Looks like he is jacking off.”
Hmmm? Had I said anything like that near my mother, if had I even known anything about it at age eleven, a trip to the emergency room probably would have been my next stop in an attempt to control the massive bleeding from my very sore posterior.
It’s a different world we live in these days. There are no secrets anymore. Nothing is held back. Decorum is out; political correctness may be dying as well. All I can say is “what the fuck is up with that?” Where do these kids come up with the shit? Who the hell teaches these little ingrate bastards how to conduct themselves? I just scratch have my balls and wonder?
And that is all I have to say about that…
Decorum:
Does it separate into what might be called two separate words: ‘Deco’ and ‘rum’ in the font you are reading?
It does in the font on my monitor.
I thought that I had missed one of the new trends: “Deco rum”.
Now then, I can be about rum like you are about beer in the pm and coffee in the am.
I was relieved to note that it was just the monitor and not a trend I had missed.
Yummy, and such a variety.
So happy to understand now, that you meant decorum like “propriety”; “according to a set standard type behavior”.
What a relief. I have not missed a rum related societal change, only I never imagined I was not the only one who cared enough to think about it let alone write about it - back to talking about societal changes.
It is a real different world now.
I for one have adopted the stance that to be politically correct instead of direct is not okay - most of the time. The noted exceptions are obvious dangerous questions and inquiries from the wife - Lady Judy, and no explanation is necessary about that one…
Can I post your blog into mine? Looks like a great dialog… Wanna converse through my blog? or yours? or both? or neither?