This morning, I almost spit out my oatmeal whilst reading Joe Fiorito's opinion piece in The Star.
The author tells a tale of a recent subway ride wherein two frisky 'kids' (probably teens) are all over each other on the same train as him. Loud, obnoxious and rude. Fine. He then goes on about how they moved towards the area between (ignoring danger signs) trains where they continued to make out and be stupid about it, much to the disgust of everyone on the train.
So far, I'm with him, as pretty much every day there's obnoxious people on the train (and let's be frank, obnoxious behaviour knows no age). Then he closes his piece with what he thinks is going to happen to the said young couple:
"The pale girl is going to get knocked up and her boyfriend is going to run away
because he isn't man enough to stay and be a father, and the girl's life will be
poor and grim and she won't quite know why, and her baby will learn its lessons
in life from her."
HUH?!
Joe, you just lost me. How does it follow? I think the author forgets that kids do stupid stuff all the time. His comments are offensive and completely ridiculous. Get a grip.
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