June 7, 2007Talking to Teens
I am older and occasionally feel challenged by today’s teenagers. Today had a different twist. On my early morning drive into the city, I turned into a housing estate to pick up a pool-rider and came across a pair of teenagers walking down the middle of the road in the dark. With a beanie, hoodie, shirt and trousers all in black, I had trouble seeing one of them and swerved to avoid him.
As I picked up my ride, I wondered if I would bother to say something. Usually I would not, out of fear of a confrontation. I thought about how to “say what I mean, mean what I say and not be mean about it.”
On the way out of the estate I stopped in the road and pointed across to the young man at the bus stop on the other side of the road.
“You, with the cigarette.”
“Yeah.”
“With the clothes you’re wearing, I had trouble seeing you in the middle of the road.”
“Uh sorry.”
“Just a safety thing mate, you have a good day.”
“Uh yeah.”
It worked. The next day they were walking on the side of the road.
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