Kids today

PostKids today by **Steve** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:06 am

We all know kids are image obsessed. We have all been there and got the t-shirt but this little story takes the biscuit!

A guy at work was telling me how he drops his kids off for school on the way to work and his daughter kept asked if he could drop her about half a mile from school as she wanted to walk the rest of the way in. It has been going on for about 2 months before they broke up for the summer holidays.

It puzzled him and he asked her about why she wanted to be dropped “so far” from the school gates. He was gob smacked when she said she didn’t want to be seen in her Dad’s “loser cruiser” as she called it.

Seriously, WTF? Do kids get beaten up if their parents don't drive a BMW or a Merc or something?

PostRe: Kids today by **Forest** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:08 am

Wasn't that from a film?

PostRe: Kids today by **Steve** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:09 am

Forest wrote:Wasn't that from a film?

If it was the guy is a lying tosser.

PostRe: Kids today by SC » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:09 am

Does this girl go to a private school?

PostRe: Kids today by **Curls** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:11 am

Everyone calls my Dad's car the "God-mobeal."

PostRe: Kids today by **captain red dog** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:11 am

I thought that sort of thing had been happening for years. I remember you were seen as seriously uncool at my secondary school if you parents picked you up from school and it would result in a lot of mickey taking. I can also remember taking the piss out of my mate when his dad got a skoda. This was around the time that Skoda made their comeback. Nowadays I just think I was an idiot back then as his Skoda was voted car of the year or something.

On the very odd occasion I used to get a lift it didn't bother me as I just laughed at the suckers that had to walk home. :twisted:

YouTube · PostRe: Kids today by **Earfolds** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:11 am

Well, that's not the first time I've heard that story.

I've never experienced that growing up because I've always walked or caught the bus to school.

PostRe: Kids today by **Red Devil** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:12 am

Depends what he was driving.

Celebrity culture is all too much spoken about these days. I propose a ban on all celebrity gossip magazines.

PostRe: Kids today by **Poncho** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:15 am

Bitch has got to learn early that if you aren't riding in a good set of wheels, then you face the fist.

PostRe: Kids today by **Gandalf** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:18 am

Nah it's not kids of today, it's been around for ages. When I were a lad *queue Hovis music* I never wanted to pull up outside of school.

PostRe: Kids today by **Nathanbrains** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:21 am

I was never really that bothered about it, but I seem to remember my brother not liking being dropped off right outside the school. I think that was more to do with being dropped off by a parent rather than the specific car they drove.

PostRe: Kids today by **SEP** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:58 am

I think it's important that we are all told what car he drives, so we can decide whether it is, in fact, a loser cruiser. It can be the start of our very own Cool Wall.

PostRe: Kids today by **Xeno** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:35 pm

I was never dropped off at school. I used to walk or catch a bus. I would meet my mates on my way there.

PostRe: Kids today by **Octoroc** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:45 pm

WELL, when I were a lad *cue Dvorak's "New World" Symphony which those of you less cultured than myself may know as "that music from the Hovis advert"* we walked to school.

YouTube · PostRe: Kids today by **Earfolds** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:46 pm

Octoroc wrote:we walked to school.

Hear hear, old chap.

PostRe: Kids today by **E-Man** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:46 pm

I walked to school until I got my own car. Good times.

PostRe: Kids today by **DaLax** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:36 pm

I would live to have been picked up from school. Poxy 45 minute bus ride.

But yeah, I can't imagine that that girl was doing anything particularly new, especially if it's in a fairly upper middle class area.

PostRe: Kids today by **Madness** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:38 pm

I walked to school 8-)

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It's not new though, kids have always been embarassed by their parents.

PostRe: Kids today by **bigcheez2k3** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:40 pm

She should be lucky she gets dropped of at school, I've always had to walk to school.

PostRe: Kids today by **Spindash** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:41 pm

When me and my sister went to high school, she had a problem with it. I didn't though. My sister always asked my dad to turn the radio/tape (yes) off before she opened the door in case everyone heard it. :fp:

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