Subway rush hour, going home.
pre-teen girl 1, to my left: Oh you wanna hear something really stupid?
pre-teen girl 2, to my right: What?
pre-teen girl 1, to my left: Today at school, this guy got suspended for saying "cavity search!"
me: Hooray! The urban youth of today is neither unaware nor apathetic towards the big brother hyper-paternalistic slant of our society shamelessly impinging on our basic Constitutional rights!
pre-teen girl 1, to my left: Hey, did you hear me?
pre-teen girl 2, to my right: What?
pre-teen girl 1, to my left: Do you know what a cavity search is?
pre-teen girl 2, to my right: Yeah.
pre-teen girl 1, to my left: You know, like, when you go to the dentist and [opens her mouth, points to molars] they look for cavities!
pre-teen girl 2, to my right: Yeah that's stupid.
me: Wait, wait what?? No no not that one....Sigh.
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It's because they spend all day reading "Twilight".
Not sure what's worse: that they think cavity search means teeth or that a kid got suspended for saying "cavity search."
Actually, it's kind of nice that pre-teens don't know what a cavity search is.
so, i should clarify that i didn't really see these kids as dumb/stupid. not saying that they're going to be geniuses one day, but i'll give them that their world is small right now. what i'm laughing at more is the gap between my initial elation in these young kids' seemingly mature political acuity and my being crestfallen (about so many things!) two seconds later.
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