Kids These Days

Sometimes it's really depressing, like when they talk about weighing your kids at school while shortening recess, eliminating gym class, and moving the lunch hour to peculiar times. And when they talk about salad bars as being novel and having carrot parties.

If I've understood carrot parties correctly, then they are a lot like what we used to do in grade school. Namely, we would have a cupcake party when it was somebody's birthday. We'd eat cupcakes, maybe have a little punch, and sing songs to the birthday kid. In a carrot party as I understand it, instead of cupcakes, you have carrots (which should be in your lunch anyway), and instead of being somebody's birthday, they're teaching you to appreciate carrots.

It reminds me of my second all-time favorite ham sandwich, the one where they substituted lettuce for the bread, and tomatoes, olives, and cheese for the ham. It looked and tasted a lot like a salad.

Then, sometimes, kids these days are really entertaining and it's all worthwhile. Witness 巴士阿叔。 Not 阿叔, the other guy.