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I still get proto-harassed  by teenage boys and guys  in their 20s, heads stuck out  of 40 m.p.h. cars  like demented, acne-ridden  oompa loompas on their way from nowhere  to nowhere.  They could be doing any number  of other things with their time:  washing their faces, their necks,  listening to their parents argue  over who pays the cable and  who gets beaten with a strap.  Chances are, the way most kids talk  about sex these days it'd be a miracle  if one in ten ever gets their first kiss.  They just play the same tired games  like generations before them, holding  secrets from one another and harassing   a mean old drunk.  **** 

I used to agree with Allain de Botton,  that we shouldn't judge one another too quickly  into the start of conversation.  I am learning the folly of this with retroactive appreciation.  The people who work too much and  never have enough money; the malcontented  teenagers and kids in their 20s  hiding behind computer screens  and dying in a sad, worthless isolation;  the ones who invent parlor tricks that  are either truly unimpressive or  simply beyond the apparent skillset  of their speakers; the old men with less  character than the hemorrhoids that plague them:  they are fit to be judged and dismissed  forever.  ****