froborr:

jumpingjacktrash:

i’m 45 years old and i can assure you confidently that back in ‘my day’ we did NOT all chat merrily with our seatmates on the bus

people on public transport were as tired and/or obnoxious back then as they are today, and i WISH i could’ve been texting my friends on the way to work in 1990, and i woulda if i coulda

instead we listened to non-rechargable battery powered walkmans and read the newspaper and pretended we didn’t notice the guy next to us leaning in all night train burps and tobacco teeth to ask for a dollar

and unlike you, we didn’t have a way to call the cops if he followed us off the bus

what i’m saying is the mobile phone is a beautiful thing and people who whine about you using it in public are just losers who want attention

godspeed

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

-Kenneth John Freeman, 1907, summarizing views found in multiple ancient Greek and Roman writers