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Hearing Ladyfingers -- Luscious Jackson
You Want WHAT For School?
On AOL's welcome screen, they're talking about this back to school "hot buy" list, which assembles various items of clothing and tech and ends up with a price tag of about a grand. And I'm thinking, holy cow, am I ever glad Athena's only four. The only thing we needed to get her for back to school was a Spongebob notebook, and she was thrilled to have it. In the real world, I could see getting your kid one of these things, and then letting him or her mow the lawn for whatever amount of time it took to earn the rest of it. But if you're just checking off entries on the list, your kid's going to need serious depressurization when he or she goes out into the real world and spends a few years eating ramen down there at the bottom of the professional food chain.
Aside from this, can I just say: Damn, those are some ugly clothes. Now, as a member of the generation which committed the crimes of acid-washed jeans and Members Only jackets, I understand this is the pot calling the kettle black. But, you know, this pot has eyes, people. The secret adults never tell teenagers is that teens are always the most ridiculously dressed demographic, regardless of historical era, and that teens never figure that until the 10th year reunion rolls around, someone pulls out a yearbook, and everybody cringes. Oh yes, my little teens. It'll happen.
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have you got that right. Teens are dressing funky these days but for this thirty something woman I remember what I wore in my teen days. Trying to be Madonna or Wendy and Lisa wasn't that easy. The psychadelic age....... paisley parties. if you can relate I know how old you are. Anyway there is always gonna be a group of thirty something women and men who think teens are outrageous,however get a load of some old family albums and see how we too stood out when it came to fashionnn.
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Yes the clothes are ugly but you act like it's obsurd that they come aeround to a grand you must remember things are more expensive!! And believe it or not some people don't cringe when they see their old year book photos!! And stop being such a parent for a secound and loosen up!!
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Hey, teens aren't the ones ridiculously dressed, its the adults. Adults are jealous that they can't wear cool clothes like us teens.
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I can chalk up precisely one benefit to being in a family too poor to keep its children on top of the trends -- I already knew my clothes were ugly.
6/14/05 9:41 PM