After a lovely few hours at the Botanical Gardens, I asked Mr C to lunch, my shout, his choice. We had Maccas coz that's what young people do. We tried the new "ICED COFFEE' and I threw a spanner in the works by asking for some soft serve ice cream in mine. Will took control of the situation (being the risk manager for Australia's leading accounting firm) because the girl behind the register didn't know how to charge me as I was asking for something that there was no button for. Will said "just charge it as a Sunday" then went on surreptitiously to explain these fast food American shops cant cope with improvisation. Apparently the Fillet of Fish is the most healthy of all the choices from that shop. The Iced Coffee was good.
First up we disussed RESPECT. That took 5 minutes. Parents dont expect RESPECT.
Then went on to mutual obligation as a concept Gen Y and X (on the whole) are not really familiar with. We shared stories we have observed. The no board, bringing the new "friend" home to stay, not contributing to the running of the house .. then there is the crashing cars that are either repaired or replaced by parents because they want their child to remain at uni and not have to catch a bus..binge drinking blah blah.... Being single people we both know that its the parents responsibility to be teaching this stuff to the child before it leaves home because its a damn cold hard world out there kids. That took a further hour or so.
We're sounding like grumpy old fockers. Im a Baby Boomer by the way, GROOVY BABY!!!
3 comments:
That's a great summary of the conversation, albeit a version fit for public consumption. We got a lot done, it was very productive. My stomach has not subsided since that day, however, FYI.
I would have loved to have been in on that conversation Kimbo, I would definitely had some imput!
And we would have loved having you there too, Leighbreath. Maybe you could whip something up on your blog???
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