Play Pretend

One of my habits is going to the gym and then walking over to McDonald's to have a coffee.  At $1, it's very much the only thing I can find for one U.S. dollar.  Today is Friday and there were a lot of kids there.  When did kids get a Friday reprieve?  When did the school day become optional?

When one considers the race to the bottom when it comes to jobs and education, shouldn't the kids be doing even more?  Whatever.  I have no kids but I doubt that I'd let them run wild or have an adventure at McDonald's.

The teenage girl who lives upstairs with her mom is always home.  At noontime on a Friday, she was home, that is.  I guess school here in Seattle-land is definitely optional.  I can't remember all the details when I was a wee one but I can remember high school.  I was incarcerated from 8am to 4pm.  And that don't include after-school band practice in the Fall (marching band, you know).  Sometimes I got a ride from my mom and sometimes it was the public bus. McDonald's was one of those rare treats and we didn't hang out there.

My brother is adamant that kids call the shots.  There's a lot of truth to that but I think yours truly is old school.  I'm so old school I looped back and became progressive.  No, you're not special at all.  You are cannon fodder for the faceless, anonymous companies who'll value your worth far less than a McDonald's coffee.