Kids these days

I was watching the local news tonight and they had a story about these raging soccer mums in some bumpkin place near Kelowna. They were raging because their children lived in the schools catchment area and had to walk 4km to school instead of catching a free ride on the school bus (school buses which are full of children who actually live FAR away). First off, walking is not going to kill you, it’s good for you. Second of all, you knew when you bought your home that you lived within the set catchment area and knew damn well that the school bus did not service your area…why are you acting so surprised now?

Funny enough, the very next piece talked about how this generation of children and teenagers are the fattest ever and how their life expectancy would be lower than that of their parents. It showed a class of Vancouver school kids exercising and then the camera panned in on one girls set of very chunky legs; can you imagine being that poor little girl in the purple stretch pants? She probably raced home thinking that her and her class would be on t.v. that night and instead she saw that she was singled out as the token fat kid…so cruel.