Don’t Play Games With Me, Kid
(I am attending my son’s graduation. As important as these are, they are long, dull affairs for those in the audience. I have just bought an iPod and I brought it along to keep myself amused. There’s a kid in front of me about 11 or 12. He turns around and sees me playing a game on the iPod.)
Kid: “Let me play!”
Me: *taken slightly aback* “Um, that would be no.”
Kid: “Why not? I’m bored. I want to play with it!”
Me: “Because I bought it to amuse me, not amuse you.”
(The kid glared for a moment, clearly trying to think of a rebuttal, and then realized I’m no pushover and turned back around. I returned to my game thinking, “Where are this kid’s parents? Now and for the last ten years of his life?”)
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