"Bits & Pieces Of Stupidity..."

See these two examples of blossoming femininity and fully flowered sexuality to the left? They're both idiots. I won't embarrass their parents by revealing their names, but these two local University of South Florida air-heads (pun intended) made the national media outlets earlier this week for having been refused return flight tickets from Los Angeles to Tampa on Southwest Airlines. The girl's explanation? "They (Southwest Airlines) were discriminating against us because we were young-decent looking girls." Adding, "I feel I was discriminated against based on my looks." Oh contraire, breast for brains!

Here's the real scoop friends... These two adolescent malcontents proceeded to make their obnoxious presence known from the outset of their boarding the flight to the west coast by being disorderly and verbally abusive to the flight attendants and other passengers, cursing one middle-aged male passenger because he had supposedly occupied the lavatory too long. Statements of the incidents were taken from the flight attendants and passengers upon the flight's arrival in Los Angeles by four police officers who unceremoniously escorted the women (that's a stretch to classify them as such) off the plane; all of whom verified that "these women were behaving in a way not appropriate on an aircraft at 30,000 feet." Were it not for the catastrophic consequences of opening the cabin doors at such a lofty altitude, I would have escorted these two arrogant and clueless miscreants off the plane long before it touched down at its final destination! I know...I know. This is a harsh judgement for two otherwise maturing females who, one would hope, would learn that their inappropriate behaviors are in need of drastic modification if they ever wish to co-exist in polite society that has little tolerance for arrogant stupidity. If other past personal experiences with this type of youthful condensation and baseless conceit is any indication, I am increasingly having my doubts...

As an example, my wife and I were seated one evening at a local restaurant adjacent to a table populated by a group of late teens to early twenty year-olds whose very loud, boisterous and obnoxious conversations were liberally peppered with all manner of curse words. These youth each had the appearance of being well groomed and economically affluent, but their language was from the gutter depths. I am not easily offended and for the most part can overlook if not totally ignore other people's blatantly bad behavior (I've had cable TV for years). But we and the other near-by patrons were offended not only by their foul mouths, but also their apparently deliberate disregard for how uncomfortable and ill at ease the other people near their table (a number of which had children in their company) had by design become. My wife decided that someone needed to speak to these youth and ask them to please refrain from being so loud and offensive in their behavior. I won't repeat what their inappropriate response was to my wife's request, but I became so angry that I too entered the fray and, to no avail, tore each of them a new orifice out of which to spew their swill. They didn't care...just plain didn't care.

My daughter, herself a senior at the University of Florida, literally hates it when I classify with the broadest of brushes this type of disrespectful arrogance as being comparable to the products of the "MTV Mentality," or "I don't give a damn!" MTV representatives were once asked if they realized how much influence they were having on the youth of America. Their response..."We don't just influence them. We own them!" Bombastic at best, but still a far more truthful an evaluation than a blatant over estimation. Their program offerings are consistently geared to the mindset of winning by whatever means possible and is best exemplified by MTV's long-running Real World episodic series, wherein teams of pre-adults vie for prizes and and an end-game monetary payoff to be awarded to the remaining team who has successfully completed numerous feats of team and individual competitions. Along the way toward this ultimate goal teammates are periodically discarded as weak links, their individual dismissals often affected with indifferent displays of caustic and biting discord. Carnivorous hyenas demonstrate more concern for their fellow pack members than these self absorbed reprobates who have thus far contributed nothing more to society than to extend their up-turned hands demanding that the world somehow owes them an pampered existence merely because they occupy space.

"Too pretty to fly?" Hardly. Too stupidly self-absorbed to be permitted to fly or to even come in out of the rain? Most likely.