The Un-Greatest Generation

Time, she is a cruel bitch. My grandparents were part of a generation that endured the Great Depression, fought off Hitler, and contributed to the greatest surge of prosperity ever seen by this nation. But, when they got older my family didn’t trust them to set an alarm clock.

I don’t know how to feel about the story of a Prairie Village Grandpa locking his grandkid in the car while he went shopping. Part of me thinks, “Good, welcome to the real world kid. You’re never more important than a new gadget.” And then I think that anybody who would trust an old person to drive a car and take care of a kid may have been secretly trying to kill both Grandpa Stupid and Baby Boy.

However, what really irks me is that somebody reported the old fart. This old white guy has had his whole life to enjoy segregated restaurants, openly celebrate the death of millions of Asians and harass women in the workplace with abandon but near the end he’s thwarted by some PC woman (only a woman would report this kind of thing) who can’t stand to see a little kid sweat. Maybe the incident will be a learning experience. If the old, white grandpa receives jail time he could get a first hand look at all of the people he has oppressed throughout the course of his life.