Well it’s September and that means those little McCarty Grandbrats will getting ready to return to school.   You can bet those Pampered Pupils will be at the mall shopping for the latest back to school products. Just thinking about those nerdy nincompoops makes me hotter than the radiator in Mrs. Gayeski’s kindergarten class at Parkman Elementary School.
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You can bet those Techie Twits will have all the latest electronic devices too. They’ll have their laptop computers, iPhones, iPods, GameBoy, and DS.  They will have more wires coming out of their backpack than a Taliban with frequent flier miles. When we were kids, all we had was a loose leaf binder with a pencil case, compass, and a protractor. And we didn’t need a stinkin’ backpack to carry our stuff. We would have an armful of books and would carry them 2 miles to school everyday. Sure, we’d drop our books and lose half of our assignments, but we didn’t care, we were happy with what we had.

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And those Fashion Freeloaders will be buying new clothes from Abercrombie  & Fitch. They will spend $200 on faded wrinkled blue jeans and T-Shirts. If my Mom saw these kids, they would get a swift kick in the keester. My Mom wouldn’t even let us out of the house with our shirt not tucked in. We went to school everyday with ironed pants and dress shirts from the Swank Shop, and we didn’t need to pay a fortune either. Sure, we usually wore polyester plaid pants and striped rayon shirts and we would get wedgies, but we didn’t care we loved it.
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And you can bet those lazy loafers will get some vehicle to get to and from school. Whether it is a scooter, skateboard, or bicycle; those little losers will use anything to get out of walking. When I was a kid, we got home from school the old fashioned way… we walked! We’d have to face rain, snow, sleet, wild dogs, bullies, smokers, and even Crazy Charlie... and we were better for it.

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So you go ahead and pamper your rotten kid with all the stuff you can buy. And while they are riding by on their scooter with their backpack and GPS, I’ll be fighting off Crazy Charlie in the alley with a compass. It’s pointy!!

Have a great fall!