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The moment a grocery clerk called me 'sir' for the first time
I was buying a 6 pack of soda at the 7-Eleven on 5th street and this teenage clerk just casually said 'have a good night, sir'. I'm only 24 and I still feel like a kid so that hit different. Anyone else get thrown off when random strangers age you up?
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kelly613mo ago
Next thing you know you'll be yelling at kids to get off your lawn.
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walker.andrew3mo ago
Kids SHOULD stay off my lawn, or at least learn to fix the divots and mud pits they leave behind. Nothing fun about paying for decent soil and grass seed just to have a ball or bike tire carve a trench through it on a rainy day. Got a patch on the side yard that looks like a mogul run from all the "shortcut" traffic between the school bus stop and the corner store. If they want to play on my grass, they can help rake up the leaves in the fall, otherwise it's a pretty fair request to ask them to stick to the sidewalk and the park across the street.
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johnb953mo ago
Honestly the bigger issue nobody's talking about is that kids these days have fewer and fewer spaces where they're actually allowed to just be kids and run around. When I was growing up there were empty lots and woods everywhere. Now it's all private property and HOAs with strict rules. So yeah I get your frustration with the mud and the grass, but if every neighbor starts chasing them off there's literally nowhere left for them to go. Maybe the real fix is the town putting in better paths or benches near that bus stop so they don't have to cut through in the first place.
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