Slight Corrections

I recently posted how the end of society is near. Now I feel this prediction is still valid, I want to correct a statement I made during the post. I stated how the group of people over the age of 35 typicaly are hard working, well rounded individuals. My observation on this is changing by the day. Here are a few examples:

1. We are currently staying at a pretty nice La Quinta Inn. This hotel seems especially nice given it's apparent age. There is free WIRELESS internet, a lap sized pool, a very decent free breakfast, and the room is twice as large as any dorm I have ever seen.While staying at this hotel, Evette and I made use of the large pool. During tonight's swim we were witness to two elderly ladies and their "tragedy". The larger of the two ladies was pushing a bell cart containing four small bags, perhaps totaling in weight 50 pounds. As they rushed toward the lobby, the smaller lady a few steps behind, they decided to blurt aloud how there was no elevator to their hotel room. A fellow guest and witness to this event pointed out that there was an elevator perhaps 12 feet behind her. The large lady ,for unknown reasons, became agitated at the good samaritan. Her response was a coarse yell stating, "The elevator does not connect to the building in the rear." The large lady continued on her trek to the office and stated quite loudly, "If I'm on vacation, I'm not gonna climb stairs." It seemed even more humorous as she tried to navigate the tight corners with her cart toward the lobby.
Evette and I found this quite humorous. Being the critical and quick thinking couple that we are we pointed out that she spent more energy and time returning to the lobby with her cart than if she had just simply climbed the stairs. One of our quotes was, "She'd already be in bed watching Matlock by now." We waited around for a few minutes hoping to see the ladies return after berrating an innocent hotel employee. When about ten minutes passed we decided to go back to our room. On the way back we noted the location of the elevator and tracked a path from the elevator to the newly added building along the second floor. Although there was only one noteable elevator it obviously provided stair-free access to any floor of any building.

2. "Hulk Hogan". The purpose of our trip to Tallahassee is for me to train teachers how to meet the new requirements in technology integration. The teacher of most note was a severely overweight and large lady with pale skin and Hulk Hogan's exact hair color and cut, save for the baldness. Her facial hair almost matched his goatee. On the first day of class she arrived at this professional training wearing a light blue, almost purple, matching sweatpants and sweatshirt. Not to be too lengthy, she exhibited all the classic traits of the students teachers hate to teach, i.e., blurting things out in class, having bad hygeine, and being a general disruption. One noteable event is where she decided to have an audio file of some sort play QUITE loudly during the training. I addressed the issue and she turned off the file with an attitude filled remark. Not even five minutes later, she was playing a seperate sound file and stopped only after fellow teachers complained. Frequently ,when a new subject was discussed, she would announce to the entire class how she has already "done this!" Yet still either immediately after I taught it or during the teaching of something completely unrelated she would shout out a request for instruction on those very subjects she had claimed to have done before. This "professional educator" is teaching English to the generation that will be our end.

It is sad to see the children of as what Dan Rather refers to as "the greatest generation" have become the architectsof the end of civilizaton, if in no other way but by setting a poor example for the children they parent and teach.