Mean Spirited

by Nick Roberts

Uh oh. She was a dumbass.

Matt nodded his head, knowing full well how each new generation of kids, especially since COVID, had gotten worse. Not worse. Worse is too simple a term for it. Don’t sugarcoat it. Each year, they’re more disrespectful and don’t give two shits about learning anything other than the latest social media trend or video games. They also endured a worldwide pandemic, experience the threat of gun violence on a daily basis, see the rising rates of teen suicide, and have to find a good enough reason not to resort to getting high to block it all out. The world experienced a collective existential crisis, and you’re expecting kids to keep chugging along like everything is hunky dory? Go fuck yourself.