THE "B D" GENERATION

 I AM AFRAID !!  In fact, I am VERY afraid !!!!!!  We are all doomed and I don't know if there is anything we can do about it.

We just had house guests for the past 3 days.  Last week The Man's son and his girlfriend were here from Alaska.  They are in their 40's and were very helpful and handy to have around here for the week. THIS week the had The Man's 2 Michigan granddaughters and 2 of their friends come to stay with us for a couple of days. The older granddaughter is twenty and her little sister is eleven.  Little sister lives up here in a neighboring town and big sister lives down state, about seven hours away.  The sisters don't get to see each other too often so when big sister decided to come up here with her two friends to go to the state fair they picked up little sister and had her stay with them at The Man's house. 

Let me start by saying that The Man and myself are old and set in our ways.  This is all relative. I do not consider myself old OR set in my ways but when I am living with The Man my world tends to shrink down to a very small window of tolerance.  Neither of us can tolerate STUPID.  Young is one thing, uneducated is another but stupid is just plain . . .  well . . .  STUPID !!!

Enter the B D Generation.  And I am being kind here when I say there is a WHOLE generation of   BRAIN DEAD young people out there populating our planet with NO idea of which end  is up. These young people are so amazingly STUPID that they are lucky to still be alive. Some examples of their total and complete ignorance is not being able to find the GALLON container of milk in the refrigerator, not knowing how to put fitted sheets on a bed AND not knowing that when you take a shower you put the shower curtain INSIDE the tub to keep the water from flooding out all over the bathroom floor. This last one put The Man totally over the edge today,  

Today we left the"kids" sleeping at 9:30 this morning to make our biweekly drive to Manistique for The Man to do his pulmonary rehab.  When we returned home at 1:00 PM the "kids" were still sleeping.              (I guess that's what happens when you stay up until 2 AM eating ice cream and watching TV.) The Man and I sat down at the kitchen table to have lunch and low and behold the Motley Crew came drifting out of the parlor where they had set up camp for the past 3 nights, Apparently the fact that they had a seven hour drive ahead of them today did not factor into their need for speed. They wandered aimlessly around the kitchen for an hour or so and then decided to take showers and START to pack up their crap. As the grand daughter and her boyfriend moseyed into the parlor to "pack" the friend headed into the bathroom to shower.  Jokingly The Man said to me, "Do you think she knows that the shower curtain goes INSIDE the tub?". (This is a joke between us because 3 years ago the older granddaughter came to stay with us in Florida and brought a friend with her.  Her friend flooded our bathroom because he did not put the curtain inside the tub.   Who doesn't know this small and simple fact ????  Why the BD generation of course!)

The group did not get on the road until nearly three o'clock. We waved good bye and headed into the house for The Man to take a nap. (Between the company and rehab he was pretty wiped out today.) The Man stopped in the bathroom on our way in as I continued on in to get a water to bring outside with me while he was sleeping. The the bathroom door opened and The Man stepped out with the oddest look on his face. I asked what was going on and he said, "She did NOT know the shower curtain goes inside the tub!"  Yup . . . this brain dead moron flooded the bathroom and left the soaking wet bathmats and towel on the floor !  

The Man and I can NOT believe the degree of stupidity of this generation of "kids".  The fact that they are of VOTING age REALLY REALLY TERRIFIES me.  If they can't figure out the simple, basic things in life how the Hell are they ever going to make informed decisions about the future of our world ?

All this leads me to the question . . . Where did WE, you and I, go wrong in the raising of our children ?  Because somewhere along the way we failed to teach our children the basics so that in turn they did not pass COMMON SENSE on to their children.  

Common Sense has left the building and has been replaced by an entire generation of Brain Dead Idiots.

God Help Us !!