So, my first real post! This one's about something we can all witness right now, if we just look around. It's winter break, and we all have friends, acquaintances, or friends of friends who are back in town from their first semester of college. How exciting-- getting the old crew together to share stories of your new lives as college kids. With the high school clique back together, it's just like old times. But wait. Notice anything different?





FACEBOOK UPDATE
Josh B.: exams over aaaah its gud to be home. No school, finna hit these parties dog! @BigDee where you at??

COMMENTS
BigDee Ericson: u kno Im there homie. we at Twon house friday?

Josh B.: hell yah you bringin the Ciroc?

PAUSE. You got one semester of college under your belt and now you drinkin' like grown folks? I mean is it me, or does there seem to be a secret class all college freshmen take entitled "Alcohol 101" ? Just about every gathering now has to involve drinking-- as if it's a real activity:

"Hey, girl, good to see you!"
"You too! You seen Cheryl 'nem yet?"
"Yeah, we all going to Tisha's house tonight."
"Cheryl bringing her Wii games?"
"No."
"We gonna watch movies?"
"No. But I'm bringing some Heineken."
"Cool! I'm there."

S.M.H. I guess everybody just expects college kids to drink, and that's why people go off to school and all of a sudden just get completely open with it. ('Cause it's not like you weren't drinking before you graduated and left home, only back then most kids pretended-- at least to their parents-- that they didn't.) So, hey. If the people won't conform to the law, perhaps the law should flow with the people (in this ONE case, that is. Don't take that statement and run with it!). With the way teens consume alcohol these days, the U.S. might as well follow in the footsteps of its parent country, England, and set the legal drinking age to eighteen

....if you ask me.

[Because as Chris Rock points out-- at eighteen, you can enlist in the armed forces, go into battle, kill people, and lose a limb. But you come back home, get to the bar and say "Bar tender, can you get me a drink?" and he's gotta tell you no? "You mean to tell me a one-legged teenager can't get a drink? Let me hear you say THAT AIN'T RIGHT." lol. Love that movie "Head Of State".]

That's all for now. Later, y'all