kenoki wrote:Tommy Alpha wrote:
CRAP!
a few months ago i was at TJ Maxx and i saw a couple of mormon guys, who looked a bit like those in the picture, buying their ties. i don't know why it struck me as funny, or as a rare moment i should relish, but watching mormons buy their ties, while wearing their ties, was a moment i'll always remember.
There's a Mormon church/dormitory in my neighborhood and they always freaked me out a bit. They're super-chipper and eager to please all the time. They'll run half a block out of their way to say hello. They shoveled the sidewalks in front of all the local businesses during a major snowstorm. These are all very pleasant things.
"So what freaks you out, crankypants?"
I'll tell you.
The teens all wear their backpacks cinched up to the top of their backs.
They walk calmly and deliberately out of class each day with their backpacks all the way up. No one rips off their tie and chokes their best friend with it. No one scrapes their backpack off the ground as they drag it behind them. There is no horseplay.
I have always found it very un-teen. That is all.
