Real Milestones
By Thomas Gallant
The way life used to work, the only time you got free extra credit was getting your name right on the SATs. While I’m hesitant to use the term “back in my day” as it reminds me of people that have grey hair growing out of their nostrils and ears, it would appear that the current generation of youngsters (aka: my friend’s kids) are just given too much to be happy about.
Now, I’ve got plenty of friends that still live to play Mortal Kombat and admit that ours is the video game generation that is compounding the errors of our youth in to our own offspring, but at the rate we’re going these kids are going to want a fucking congratulatory banquet after successfully executing their parents’ funerals. I think the benefits of a good education and extra curricular activities are obvious, but do we have to pin a medal on a kid every time he wipes his ass?
