stop putting holes in children.

I have a huge problem with babies with earrings. HUGE.

Sweet lord, look at social acceptance and what it's done to us. Mothers rush their children to the doctor for bumping their head on the coffee table, but then volunteerily let someone punch a hole through their baby's ear? They don't know what's going on.. it hurts like hell even when you DO know what's happening.. and for what? So they have something shiny and pretty? THROUGH their brand new ears. Will you get their stuffed animals' name tattooed on their shoulder, too?

I wonder if anyone's tried to do that.. wouldn't be too shocked.

the ice cream truck vs. WoW.

I heard the ice cream truck head down my street a few hours ago. It was probably driving about 30mph and I thought, I wish I was still excited by the ice cream truck. Maybe I'll grab it one day. Then it occured to me that, had I even had an interest in running out to it, it is pretty unlikely that I could have possibly gotten off my couch and caught the ice cream truck much easier than any other car heading down my street. How on Earth do the kids do it?

Maybe they don't.

The ice cream truck used to be so easy to catch. It would drive about 15mph through the neighborhoods, rightfully assuming that one of the hundreds of kids hanging out in the streets will jump at the opportunity to buy strangely convenient ice cream. For those who are in your teens, you may be too young to know that the only thing you used to be able to do in the summer is play outside. There were wiffleball games and rollerblades and hide-and-seek. Now, there's AIM, World of Warcraft, Halo. Do kids go outside anymore? Of course they do. But you have to admit it's harder to get them to do since there are so many things to do inside now.

I wonder how long it will take for the Ice Cream Man to lose his job.