Age Of Innocence
\nAre you ever riding a public bus at around three or four o\u2019clock on a weekday? If so, you\u2019ll notice them jam-packed with people around five-foot-one bogged down by backpacks twice their width. This is how it\u2019s always been. I remember very clearly being a five-footer dragging my forty-pound backpack up the aisle, collapsing into a seat, only to have to give it up for a nice old lady who looks to have been in far better shape than I. But the latest brand of gawky 13-year-old has a new toy for the ride home. When we were that age bus rides were for swooning over cute boys and spreading lethal gossip about one\u2019s girlfriends\u2026 unintentionally of course. But I\u2019ve noticed that if two teenage girls are squeezed next to one another on a bus, they\u2019re not whispering in each other\u2019s ears, or writing each other dirty notes, or badmouthing a fellow classmate. They\u2019re leaning over one another\u2019s shoulders looking at each other\u2019s mobile device. I understand the appeal of technology and realize that if people of all other ages are hooked, why shouldn\u2019t 13-year-olds be? But can this really be more fun than discussing the time you let Bobby Frazer touch your boob?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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