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Monday, June 6, 2011

Mondays

Well, I always try to give Mondays a good name. No one likes Mondays, but I've made it my personal mission to always make them good.

That said, on my way to the library this morning, I passed a horde of children from a local middle school. That's fine; our campus is very beautiful and lots of people from all over come to see it. It was even fine that the boys who would wave Hi to me, and try to get my attention. As is customary for me, I'd give them a head nod and a "What's up." What was not fine were the boys who, in an effort to impress their friends, would respond with, "You're freaking fat. You should lose some weight."

Well I never. I'm not fat by any standards: I'm a tad on the heavier side, but I'm not fat. And I'm not just saying that to make myself feel better. For me to be at my ideal weight, I'd need to lose 10-15 lbs. No big deal; there's reason I'm at the gym for an hour and a half and run at least 2 miles every day.

But really? Those comments were just simply uncalled for. I'm not sitting here crying about it, but it's just shocking to me that children have become so disrespectful.
What ever happened to respect your elders?
It's not like I'm super old, but I've got a good 8 years on those boys. Kids today, I swear. I guess summer really is here.

Regardless, I'm still trying to have a good Monday. Sitting in the cool library, getting ready to start an intense writing session.

I hope everyone else has a good Monday!

Edit: For clarification, I wasn't hurt by these comments. More astounded, if anything.

16 comments:

  1. Well gotta say, u made my monday better :D,

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  2. Remember that when boys want to show their affection, often they will do something the complete opposite, like insult you. And with kids growing up in the age of information, with less social interaction I wouldn't expect much respect anymore.

    I'm having a decent Monday!

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  3. You must be crazy , even Garfield the orange cat is against you! noody likes Mondays!

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  4. Boys are bottled up angst and semen. They want both of them out and don't know how to. I'm sure they didn't mean it. Have a good day :)

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  5. What a great post finding a monday night :)!

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  6. Bruce and Doc_Waffles, I think you two are right. But, don't worry, I didn't take offense to them. I was just like, what?

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  7. Hey, I don't know how to message you, but do you still play CIV?

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  8. I never was able to because my brothers were really protective of their game. But I think they still do, every once in a while.

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  9. you should lecture them one day cathy!
    (However "kids" always feel "big" in a crowd, so just ignore them, not worth to be upset about such things at all!)

    always nice to read your blog though!

    keep it up!

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  10. I like mondays usually, except for days like today when I slacked off and had to get all of my homework done at the last second! But now I have an hour to relax so all in all not a bad monday.

    and when it comes to the kids, I blame the parents, I mean they probably didn't even know that their kids were there...smh

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  11. The problem with kids is the overall decay of common sense morals and authority in our present society. Everyone's so politically correct and honesty goes out the window, thus I blame the parents.

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  12. Just stupid children trying to impress their friends. Oh, the hierarchy of grade school!

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  13. Boys will be boys. I'd band your brains out, tho!

    Queue the music - Cheeeeerrrrrr up, Chaaaarrrlie!!!

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  14. I agree with you. Mondays are tougher than the rest of the week. Kids these days hmmph. ><

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  15. yesterday was a holyday, today is kind of a monday

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