T'was a first for me. Beat up black hatchback (maybe a VW Rabbit) no hub caps and full of bored high school kids (it's spring break this week) toss something out the window as they pass me. A few seconds later I hear the popping of about a dozen fire crackers. What ever happened to standards? They weren't even close. In my day we would have put effort into estimating the fuse burn time to the speed of the target, determined the correct ratios and gotten within 10 yards of the target. What are they teaching in schools today anyway? They could never firgure out basic word problems like: how far down stream a swimmer would end up when swimming at a speed of 2 mph in a 3 mph current in a mile wide section of a river. It's just pathetic.

I mean it was pretty bad when they used to yell without enunciating clearly. I'd have to spend the rest of the ride trying to figure out exactly what they were trying to communicate. Now I have to witness their poor problem solving and accuracy skills. This younger generation disgusts me.