A peek into the demographic of my community.
Scene 1: A father and son walking along the sidewalk just across the street from the BDO annex (front porch). Dad is sporting a baseball cap that barely contains his long, abundant, bushy hair. He is pushing a scooter. It's about noon so they are probably on their way to afternoon kindergarten at the nearby school.
As they pass, dad turns his head, cups his hand to his mouth to focus the forthcoming gruff shout in the direction of someone behind him on the sidewalk:
“HEY BABE! CAN YOU ALSO GET ME A PACK OF CIGARETTES?”
A pause and then, “THANK YOU.”
Scene 2: Dad and Babe walk by again a short time later. He is riding the scooter, and has a cigarette dangling from his lips. Babe is regaling Dad in a rather loud tone with a story about an exchange she must have had with the store clerk. It included a lot of expletives.
Charming.
(But at least they are taking their kid to school. And at least he was polite when asking Babe to get him the cigarettes.)
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