These kids today
Posted
October 22, 2006 at
2:30 pm by
Stacy
A few weeks ago my teenaged sons were entertaining a group of friends who just happened to be girls. Traditionally when that happens, the kids start out in the kitchen snacking on bowls of M&M’s or cookies and then they migrate into the bedroom our sons share which is actually a small “suite’, consisting of a study, a bunkroom and a bathroom. PlayStation and their computer are also in there so the taboos that plagued my generation regarding the simple act of bringing the opposite sex into one’s bedroom and “ALL THE PERVERTED THINGS THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO IMPLY” (but didn’t), don’t apply here. That said, I was urging my older sons to put away the enormous basket of clean-and-unfolded clothing so that the room would look less slovenly, lived-in by swine, cluttered.
“Relax, Mom, ” said my 16-year old. “My friends couldn’t care less.”
“What about your underwear? At least stick that in a drawer someplace Doesn’t that bother you?” I asked.
“Why should it? My friends know I wear underwear.”
And then it hit me. Of course their friends know they wear underwear. Their friends know. Their teacher knows. Everyone knows because anyone with two functioning eyes can see a good two inches of it above the waist of their pants or shorts. And I’m not talking about gangbanger pants with the crotch that hangs level with the kid’s calves. I’m just talking about regular Levis and a general “unconcern” about whether or not one’s underclothes can be seen from a remote space satellite orbiting the planet.
So, if the kids don’t care about one’s underwear being visible while it’s still on their body, I suppose it makes perfect sense that several pair of “unoccupied” boxers left lying crumpled under a desk chair aren’t going to give any of their friends a big case of the vapors.
Madonna, you may be yesterday’s news and God knows you’ve been replaced by some other morons (K-Fed comes to mind) with similar taste in attire, but the legacy you began by wearing your bra on the outside of your shirt is still gaining momentum. Gee….thanks.
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1. Jessica Carlson said:
October 22, 2006 @ 4:51 pm
Stacy, are you getting all crotchety on us?
I remember wistfully of the days when teenagers would blush at the thought of freinds seeing their drawers out in the open, now it’s no big deal. My how times change.
We should have a new category called “we’re old”. (Of course, I am only speaking for myself here!)
2. Cristina said:
October 23, 2006 @ 12:32 am
I never liked the underwear-hanging-out-of-the-pants look. But I do get a laugh seeing the kids with their pants down around their knees - literally. I’m amazed that they can even walk around like that. Whoever thought that look was stylish? I guess we are “old” like Jessica says.
3. TB said:
October 23, 2006 @ 7:54 am
Haha! Jessica! I was just thinking this post is very Andy Rooney-esque ;o)
4. TB said:
October 23, 2006 @ 7:55 am
Haha, Jessica! I was just thinking this post is very Andy Rooney-esque ;o)
5. V-Grrrl said:
October 23, 2006 @ 11:59 am
Wordgirl, the world doesn’t come to an end until your boys start wearing Madonna’s bras in public.
6. shelley said:
October 23, 2006 @ 12:49 pm
In my day (she said in her old lady voice), the boys wore their boxers hanging out of the bottom of their shorts in summertime, and that was enough underwear sighting for us college girls, at least at my preppy east-coast school. I love the idea that their undies can be seen by a space satellite nowadays, though. That’s priceless.