Rant Coming!!!

Click on the blog entry to be taken to SF Gate.com to read an article on mall policies regarding unsupervised teens (16 and under) being barred from malls unless they have a parent present. I think it's a great freaking idea. A mall is a place to do commerce, ie SHOP!! It's not a place to hang out or roam around in packs causing trouble or doing stupid shit. Ready??? Rant time.

Okay so in the article it says Teens have huge buying power. Excuse me? With who's money? Their parents maybe, unless they are as lucky as the Perfect Line and get a job in Corporate America at age 16. Usually they are working retail or fast food and making just above minimum. Oh and these poor teens feel like they aren't getting good customer service because folks react to them differently when the come into a store unsupervised. Why is that I wonder? My Wife works at Ross. Two teen girls walked into the store intending to do some shopping. They were. Enter a pack of teen boys walking by who's only purpose was to go into the store and act up trying to impress the girls. The whole batch was asked to leave. Hmmm....so unfair....give me a break. One of the malls out here Hickory Hollow Mall used to be the mall to go to. Now it's the mall to go to if you want to get into a gang fight or get car jacked in the parking lot. Hmmmmm......yes we are so unfair to Teens. Do they pay taxes? No (most don't have taxes taken out because they make so little). Do they vote? Unless they are 18, hell no!! ( and sometimes even when they are 18 they don't bother). If you are truly in the mall to Shop, then why is being with your folks so wrong. It's your own damn fault kids. You and your generation of rude, disrespectful kids growing up with the attitude that everyone owes you. Yeah, we owe you...a kick in the ass is what we owe you. Everytime I read this I want to kick some punk in the ass so he gets the point. If the majority of teens acted in a civillized manner then there would be no need for this. When I was a teen, we didn't act like little assholes in the mall, the Security Guards would have kicked us out. Face it kids, you end up on Myspace hiding from your folks and going off to meet dirty old men for sex...why, because your bored!!!! The government made sure you were wrapped in bubble wrap and foam so you didn't get hurt. You grew up playing sports where "everyone is a winner". Your mediocrity was applauded. Hey you gave it a shot.....no you didn't, you expended the minimal effort and energy to get it done. You have everything you need at your fingertips and really haven't had to work hard for nothing. You get cruised through school. Hell sometimes they don't give you homework because its "not fair". All this is doing is ill preparing you for the real world. The real world is not a nice place. So when your parents drop you off at the mall and use it as a babysitter and you screw that up by being jerk offs, yeah we the Adults that run this world are going to fight back. You're rights end at your parents front door. If I am a store owner and you and a pack of thugs come into my store and I don't like the look of you, I'm calling the cops or chasing your asses out. You don't like it; then pull your damn pants up, ditch the giant gold chain and gold teeth covers, wear your damn ball cap the way it's supposed to be worn and stop trying to be 50 cent or Snoop Dogg. Simple. Dress like a human being, act like one and you will be treated like one. Act like a punk ass, and I will assume you are a punk ass. Simple. Girls, you are 15-16 years old. You aren't whores so stop dressing like you are. Liv may not be my biological daughter, but she goes out of the house looking like a tramp...I'll kill her. So if you want all of this to stop, start wising up and start learning to act like civilized people again. If you want respect, you have to earn it.