Why do Young People.....?

[Rhubarb]

Smell
Answer back
Wear baggy, ridiculous looking clothes
Wear hardly any clothes at all
Chew Gum
Spit in the street
Throw litter on the street
Hang around outside newsagents
Swear so much in a loud voice
Do everything in a loud voice
Wear trainers ALL the time
Wear hoods over their baseball caps
Have more than one mobile phone

There are probably more, I just thought it would be fairer on the old people if someone slagged off young people too. And it's sooooo easy to do!

Say "yeah, right" in THAT tone
Speak badly generally (innit)
Go shopping in great big dawdling groups so that you can't get round them

Reproduce in droves when still below school-leaving age, with the result that in area like mine, people think I am the DSs granny because I am in my thirties (okay, late thirties).

Insist on climbing all over the 'Littlies' play area at the park whilst shouting and swearing.

Ride their bike really dangerously around young children or even worse through the shopping centre.

I think you've covered must of my moans about them Rhubarb. I really CANNOT understand those horrible disgusting baggy jeans that drag on the floor, makes them look like they haven't got any feet....all wet and frayed.....YUK

And the baseball cap and hood thing? Why do they need to wear them both at once? Whats all that about!

Smoke weed and think you don't know what the smell is

Wake up at 13 and they know EVERYTHING!

hurl abuse at me because I dare to drive my car down my street when they are in the middle of the road doing their bike stunts (as happened today!)

wear "hoodies"

write written sentences in "text mode" - this really winds me up!

Sunchowder LOL. And yet they still can't understand that if 1 apple = 4.23 oranges, then 1 orange =/4.23. What realy frightened me was that the sixthform mentor I had with me (who is doing A level maths) didn't understand it either!

Should have read 1/4.23. Damn keyboard

Answer questions with "So?" or "Dunno"

Think swearing is a normal way to speak (to anyone and everyone) - well, where I teach anyway

Say "so I was like" when they mean "so I said".

Cross the road in front of cars r-e-a-l-l-y s-l-o-w-l-y. I plan to clip the next one who does it. (Or else slow right down and then hoot when they reach the pavement - should make them jump a mile with a bit of luck.)

say "wotever" in a real awful way when you pass comment on their behaviour

Give it large when they are with their mates, but crumble on their own - god were we like this before - or are we still like it now??

just the thread i needed! walk in front of oncoming cars really slowly, or in yesterdays case a fire engine that has been blaring up the road that had to put its brakes on for a smart arse teenage girl

JanH - I think it should be legal to actually hit people who deliberately dawdle whilst crossing the road. 'You took the gamble, sorry you lost pal'

Oh, SSH, I have started saying "wotever" back at mine, they HATE it!

Tinker, yes, great idea! - but pending the new law, please will you come to court to defend me after I do it? (And I'll do the same for you of course!)

not keep their rooms tidy

go all embarrassed when you drag the pics out of when they were younger

always say "I hate you"

Janh - do you do it LA style with a really long "r" sound? That would really be something special I think.

here are mine (and I think this proves that dp is right when he says I am old before my time) -

• answer everything sarcastically
• have their pants showing (it's called underwear, don't you know? )
• (in spain) assume that the rules of the road do not apply to mopeds.
• look me up and down in the street like I'm a mad old hag.

perhaps that last one is just paranoia though.

Say that 70's/80's music is cr@p and then go out and buy the cover versions by Westlife etc. THE ORIGINAL WAS BETTER!!

Yes, never investigate music from before they were born.

Yep, senoraP, I do a great drawl! "whaddeverrrrr"

re cover versions, I often astound my teenagers by knowing the words to records which have only just come out (do we still say "records"?)...must admit that I don't always realise they are cover versions, but the kids have been miffed to find out that they are.

Roscoe, 80's music is cr@p....