Thursday, October 4, 2007

Things a child should...and should not say!

Things a child should say: Please and Thank you

Things a child should not say: Child 1: "Sei una merda.... sei la merda che ho fatto stamattina." Child 2: "SI, magari sono una merda, ma io vado a casa a fare sesso. Tanto, tanto sesssssssso!" Rough Translation: Child 1: "you're a piece of shit... you're the piece of shit I shat this morning." Child 2: "Yeah, maybe I'm a piece of shit, but I'm going to go home to have sex. Lots and lots of seeeeeex!"

I take the bus to work usually, I could walk, but it has been cold and rainy lately, so I have been bussing it! Now at this bus stop there are usually 4 young boys that wait for the bus when they get out of school. These boys are roughly 7-8 years old and everyday they get to the bus stop and one turns to the other and will say something along the lines of "vaffanculo, pezzo di merda, bastardo, sei un coglione." (fuck you, you piece of shit, bastard, you're an asshole) to which the other boy will respond something just as bad if not worse, and all 4 of them basically do this to one another, and at some point someone will throw in the fact that they are going to go home to either "fare sesso" have sex or to "scoppare" fuck! They talk crap to one another until the bus comes and then they all get on the bus joking around about what I am assuming is normal kid stuff (assuming because the busses are usually packed, so they would probably get in trouble for speaking like that). They do this every single day! The first time I witnessed it I was completely shocked. I couldn't help but laugh, I mean I just couldn't believe what I was hearing, who speaks like that. It is the weirdest/funniest/most shocking thing I have seen in a while.
Antonio said that sometime next week he will come with me to witness this barrage of insults, I told him that if I ever have a child and I hear him speaking like that that I would probably smack him, it's completely unacceptable. The saddest thing of all, at least in my opinion, is that the mother of one of these boys is usually standing about 10 feet away from where they are spitting insults at one another, and she does nothing to stop them. I mean that's just bad parenting if you ask me!

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