Hobbling past them on my way to the store, I heard one of them call out. I assumed he was mocking me, then few of them ran up and offered to carry my bags
Teenagers from a few different schools would sit under the tree nearest our block of units. They were a bit troublesome sometimes. Usually, they would just smoke cigarettes and the occasional doobie. But other times they’d spray paint tags on our fence or yell smartarse comments at people walking through the park.
So very “scary!” How did you possibly survive before getting to know them?
Yeah, the uplifting story is that a judgmental curmudgeon is forced to interact with other local people and discovers that he had misjudged them. Maybe this experience opened his mind and he gives more people the benefit of the doubt.
Tbf teenagers are generally emotionally unstable and highly impressionable. As anyone who has ever spent a lot of time working around them could tell you, the same kids could either be absolute shitbirds or total saints just depending on the day.
If you have a group of 5 teenagers, all it takes is one of them being a prick for all 5 of them to start acting like pricks. The same is true when it comes to them acting positively. If one acts like a saint first, then the rest are more likely to follow
So very “scary!” How did you possibly survive before getting to know them?
Yeah, the uplifting story is that a judgmental curmudgeon is forced to interact with other local people and discovers that he had misjudged them. Maybe this experience opened his mind and he gives more people the benefit of the doubt.
Tbf teenagers are generally emotionally unstable and highly impressionable. As anyone who has ever spent a lot of time working around them could tell you, the same kids could either be absolute shitbirds or total saints just depending on the day.
If you have a group of 5 teenagers, all it takes is one of them being a prick for all 5 of them to start acting like pricks. The same is true when it comes to them acting positively. If one acts like a saint first, then the rest are more likely to follow