I take the train home every day. Sometimes I’ll take the bus. But that’s not important. What’s important is what can happen in the time it takes for the train to stop.
I was listening to my headphones when the train lurched to a stop and a group of teenagers with pants too short and too saggy loaded onto the train. Although the train was jam packed they managed to push everyone (or maybe it was by choice) as far away as possible. I heightened the volume of my music but even The All American Rejects couldn’t drown out the sound of the boys screaming and shouting that they were taking over the “f______ing train”. I wasn’t scared of them, but I could see that some of the younger kids in the train were. It wasn’t fair that they could just waltz in and “take over” the train.
It wasn’t right either, people getting home from work didn’t want to hear their hyena-sounding laughs or their nonstop swearing. I think the cause of ignorant kids like this is their lack of discipline and the effect is that they lose respect for others and become self-indulgent. I think what needs to happen is that schools and parents must explain to their kids that respect goes both ways. No child should be afraid of a teenager, I know when I was younger I looked up to them. That’s the way it should be.
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