This is a subject I simply cannot play passive about, although in public I generally keep my thoughts to myself. Here I am not as restricted.
More and more lately I've found myself picking my jaw up off the floor, from the increasingly harrowing stupidity my ears have been witness to – and I do not refer to political statements. I mean sheer parachute-free spelunkings into the bottomless cavern of mental absenteeism.
Let me just quote the stand-outs (with my afterthoughts in parenthesis). You be the judge. Keep in mind, all these quotes were made by adults.
It helps to hear the true idiocy at work, if you read them with an upward inflection, y'know??
Heard across a row of pumps at a gas station, on a particularly bright morning.
"Geez, where IS all that sunlight coming from!"
(Uh, that big shiny ball dealy-bob... a couple miles overhead... maybe. Just a guess.)
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Heard, unfortunately, at work:
"Yeah, I have this thing in my car that tells me how warm it is."
(That would be the THERMOMETER. I asked the guy who sells cars at the car sale place.)
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Heard in a coffee house, between two twenty-something twits, talking over their respective laptop screens:
"Then like, like, you know, the whole, like, issue of, like, the English learning thing."
"Oh God, yeah, like, all, like totally."
(May I point out something: The above conversation, though consisting of English words, is not English. I'm sure there are angels pondering what these two believed they were discussing.)
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I'm sorry. In the world I grew up in, adults did not talk like this. In my formative years, there was not usually a shortage of adults who were worth looking up to, in terms of emulating their character, and working to match their level of reasoning and mental maturity.
Should I be scared?
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