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Dear Underage Assholes:
Look I understand underage drinking. Really I GET IT. I used to do it 20 years ago. I grew up in the boonies, 8 miles from “town,” so when I was a teenager we had field parties. You cruised McDonald’s and the main highway that snaked through town, found your friends, drove out to a dark country field, parked your trucks and cars, cranked up some Hank Jr. or Journey or Beastie Boys on the radio or from your incredible collection of cassette tapes, and you hung out. But you know what? We cleaned up after ourselves. We didn’t scatter empty beer cans and cigarette butts all over a quiet suburban neighborhood park….a park that is heavily trafficked by families with young kids who ask questions like, “Mommy were you a bad teenager?” (A question luckily I can honestly respond no, too, if you don’t count my college years.) We respected the cows’ personal space. Do you hear me? We respected COWS. That’s right. We might have been dabbling in illegal activity, but we didn’t litter. We might have peeled out on a gravel road if we saw Farmer Joe’s lights come on, but we didn’t litter.
So go play homage to Anheuser Bush in someone’s basement or sneak over to a friend’s house when their parents are out of town and scatter empty cans and cigarette butts on your own turf. Not ours.
And if I ever am out past midnight on a weekend, which I’ll admit is highly unlikely since lately I struggle to stay up past 10 o’clock, and see you all up at the park? I’m gonna open the can of mama whoop ass or at least get the hubby to scare you off. He’s got a lot of past experience with beer cans and I’m sure he can tell you where to stick them, I mean dispose of them.
Signed,
An Angry Mom
I think you’re right. I did plenty of dumb and/or illegal things, but these kids are on a whole new level of dumbass. Heck, some of them have me on Facebook and you should see some of the pictures they put of themselves on there! IDIOTS!
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Dang kids! I also spent some time partaking in underage drinking but we always cleaned up after ourselves. A friend and I ever walked several blocks to a park to get rid of the evidence.
And I used to hide my beer in a snowbank outside of my Dad’s airplane hanger!
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Ahhhhhh….the Beastie Boys! I think I’m going to have to go dig out my cassette tape and listen to a little Brass Monkey!
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I sure never knew any of this was going on.
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I would have bet on it.
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Kids are so disrespectful nowadays.
I say this knowing that I am not much older than most of the “kids” I am talking about. Seriously, it is disrespectful to leave your trash laying about. It’s disrespectful to the environment, it’s disrespectful to the owners of whatever property you are littering on, and it’s disrespectful to any people who might see your crap. It’s not hard to pick up your trash and toss it in a can at a nearby gas station or a Mcdonald’s or whatever. Seriously, get with it!
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Somehow I think you’d have no problem finding plenty of other whoopA mom’s to join you.
Hugs,
Holly
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We ALWAYS have empty beer cans thrown in our ditch, like every weekend! So, I’m with you.
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Jamie, you cursed and alluded to beer and shenanigans. I love you.
I shall give you a huge Amen to this as a fellow angry mom.
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I hear you. At the end of 4th grade the parents organized a party for the kids at the local park. I got there to set up and spent half of the morning sweeping up broken beer bottles. I was pissed! Go ahead and sneak your beer…we all did, but don’t do stuff like that!
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OK. I think we may have grown up in the same town. Until I moved to Cincinnati I’d never been to a party that wasn’t out in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road.
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You should call the popo’s on their littering butts. That’d show em’!
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I used to love field parties in my small town. I think I might throw one in the near future and invite all of my friends. We would probably just fall asleep at 9 in our tents.
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Good call! Not that I drank underage, but IF I did
here’s what I would have done: I would have stepped on the cans so they were really small so they could be hidden in a book bag that could be stuffed under my bed until I had a chance to go to the local recycling center on a Saturday. That way I could have been responsible, green, not punished and stay in good favor with Angry Moms (like you and me) everywhere!
You’d think the green movement would be enough to get these kids in gear these days…
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