Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Gaggles or giggles of girls
by which I mean the early-teen variety, and sometimes including boys as well, should not be allowed to gather in groups in coffee shops. Do these young people ("Oh, my GAWWDDD!!!" "Oh, my GAWD!" "OH. MY. GAWWD!!!") not realize that some of us have abandoned our cherished spots in libraries, where no one says "Hush" any more, and fled to Starbucks or The Second Cup to get our reading and our writing done?
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On the other hand, you do sometimes overhear little gems: I was in the Starbucks I visit most here in Tokyo last October, and was sitting across from some schoolgirls who were complaining loudly about the heat. One said that it had been so hot at school that day she'd woken up twice in her English class.
Another day, another gaggle: this time it was a group of international school students meeting after a week's holiday. Catching up on what they had been doing in the holidays one said, "I shaved my legs." Another reported she had been forced to go on a camping trip to a forest park with her parents Asked what that had been like, she replied, "Well, there were lots of trees."
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