After Melen's fencing tournament we stopped off at the big shopping mall in our area. We don't get there often and the lovely Mrs_B needed some shoes so we swung in to pick some things up.
While my wife was shoe shopping Melen and I decided to get a snack (actually a whole box of CINNABUNS). I'd say that at least 50% of the young people we saw looked like some combination of criminal, gang banger, or wanna-be hood. WTF??? This observation applied to the black, hispanic and white youths. Many of the teen girls looked like young hookers. Most of the boys had baggy pants, or baggy 'designer' sweat tops, hats that were sideways or backwards, BIG earrings that appeared to be fake gold and rhinestones. Seriously these kids looked like they came from all walks of life but all looked like 'gangstas'
And they all traveled in small to medium sized packs and they traveled the mall. Typically 4 to 10 of these ne're-do-e'll looking youths would walk together. I didn't see them in Macy's or Carson Pirie Scott, but did see them roaming the main areas of the mall.
Honestly I was waiting for the Jets to start in against the Sharks, just like West Side Story . . . only probably not by singing
While my wife was shoe shopping Melen and I decided to get a snack (actually a whole box of CINNABUNS). I'd say that at least 50% of the young people we saw looked like some combination of criminal, gang banger, or wanna-be hood. WTF??? This observation applied to the black, hispanic and white youths. Many of the teen girls looked like young hookers. Most of the boys had baggy pants, or baggy 'designer' sweat tops, hats that were sideways or backwards, BIG earrings that appeared to be fake gold and rhinestones. Seriously these kids looked like they came from all walks of life but all looked like 'gangstas'
And they all traveled in small to medium sized packs and they traveled the mall. Typically 4 to 10 of these ne're-do-e'll looking youths would walk together. I didn't see them in Macy's or Carson Pirie Scott, but did see them roaming the main areas of the mall.
Honestly I was waiting for the Jets to start in against the Sharks, just like West Side Story . . . only probably not by singing
