Teenage Senselessness

I get it. "Boys will be boys." But I think once you enter high school, your behaviors are no longer excused by this rule.

As the road trip continued, we arrived at another Rest Plaza today. This time in Pennsylvania. A group of at least twenty high school aged boys were also at the same plaza. I, frankly, don't like being around large groups of people my own age. At least groups that I don't know. I know that they are most likely jocks who punch each other for fun, whereas my friends and I eat skittles and sing show tunes for fun.

Well this group was no exception.

After being in the car for hours with nothing to comfort me but Will and Grace on DVD and a large bottle of water, I had to use the facilities. As did every one of these twenty high school boys. Well they must have thought that they were the only ones in the bathroom as they were pushing each other around. One, thinking I was his friend, tried to block me from a toilet. Upon shouting "Excuse me!" into his ear, he got the picture that I wasn't his friend.

Another boy, not aware of his surroundings, pushed my father into a wall to get to a toilet first. My father was not too happy with these proceedings. The boy was immediately brought back to reality as he realized what he had just done. He began to apologize profusely. Needless to say, this boy was embarrassed.

Lucky for the boy, I did not know of this until my father told me in the lobby. Had I known/seen what happened, I would have assembled my soap box right then and there in the bathroom and began a short lecture on etiquette, politeness, and sensibility. But I simply gave them an eye roll and a not-so-secret look of judgment on my face.

Like I said, "Boys will be boys," needs to stop somewhere. Some of these boys must have been at least eighteen years old. I think they would know better than to push each other around in a public bathroom.

Until next time.

kp