MDMA & good looking girls? Not when I was 15!
(article by Michael Holden)
Partaking in the spasm of outdoor activity afforded by the first sunny weekend of the year I was sitting outside a café when I saw two women stop a man they recognised and prize forth the following nugget of modern woe.
Woman: (having discussed the weather and other matters) “How’s your sister’s kid?”
Man: (face falling slightly) “Oh that’s all got a bit on top, he’s moved out.”
Woman: “Moved out? How old is he?”
Man: (laughing) “Fifteen.”
Woman: (less amused)“Is that even legal.”
Man: “Well, moved out in the sense that he’s gone to his dad’s. Not like moved out and got his own place.”
Woman: “Right.”
Man: “He has gone off the rails a bit though, but I keep an eye on him, via Facebook.”
Woman 2: (with disdain) “Oh, Facebook!”
Woman: (ignoring her) “What’s he up to on there?”
Man: “Him and his mates have got a page, they talk to each other in like a secret code, but I’ve cracked it. From what I can tell they do a fair bit of MDMA and they go to a lot of parties and they take pictures of a lot of good looking girls.”
Woman: “What do you make of that then?”
Man: (looking into the middle distance-doubtless at a vision of his own youth receding) “Well, I’m envious really, as much as anything else. I wish I was 15.”
Woman: “I meant what are you gonna do about it?”
Man: “I dunno. I haven’t figured that out yet.”
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