Hey kids! Love will destroy you! By Mark Morford

[madokie]

Hey kids! Love will destroy you!
By Mark Morford

I'm guessing 17. Maybe 16. Although I must admit I'm finding it very hard to tell anymore because the older I get the more I notice this odd, unstoppable inversion taking place in my wayward perceptions, rendering my ability to accurately assess the ages of members of Generation Facebook wickedly futile.

Anyway. There they were, the pair of them, right next to me on Muni recently, two loud, gum-snapping, shamelessly teenaged girls, both dressed in some sort of adorable sweatshop clown chic, nearly identical in getup except for the fantastical color schemes.

Imagine: sausage-tight velour sweatpants -- one bright orange and the other bright green -- rainbow print shirts and orange gloves and yellow shoes and striped choppy tiger-print hair, both basically looking like a Lite-Brite exploded all over a box of crayons, and both girls texting like mad and yelling across the aisle to each other in that hypercondensed, consonant-slurred teen gibberish that makes you sigh and smile and worry just a little about the fate of our flailing species.

But that's not what I noticed most. One of the girls, the one in the orange pants and the short, fruit-stripe hair who was standing right in front of me, I couldn't help but look down and realize she had something inscribed high up on the back of her neck, just beneath the hairline. ...

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[malaise]

1. Excellent read

I have a nephew who is always bored. Anytime he tells me that I suggest he reads a book for now because when he has a wife and two kids he'll wish he had time to be bored. I didn't know what boredom was at 25.

[madokie]

2. Heck at 61 I still don't know what boredom is

Started working at the end of the 8th grade school year so I never had time to get bored, tired maybe but not bored

[malaise]

3. Isn't that the truth

I don't know the word. :D

[Mixopterus]

4. I dunno

Does one magically observe what love does to people at the age of 30 or something? Seems like a purely arbitrary point to set the validity of the originator.

I started to figure out at, oh say, the age of nine that love tends to fuck people up more than it helps them in the form that is most commonly engaged in. It doesn't exactly take a wisened sage to figure it out, you just need even some of your senses and a brain in your head. Did the vapid girl realize this as well? Probably not, but age based argument of the writer is probably just as silly as the tattoo on the back of the dimwit's head.