Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

Saturday was warmer here, and the wind was blowing at a decent clip, so while I was at Target shopping for other things, I decided to get a kite. The amount of string that came with the kite wasn’t as much as I wanted, so I stopped one of the Target employees, who appeared to be about 20 years old, and asked, “Can you tell me where the kite string is?”

“You mean, like, string just for kites?”

Oh. My. God. This kid had never heard of kite string. That’s the Nintendo generation for you. On their ass in front of the TV or the computer since childhood, and never once flew a kite. What the hell.

And boy am I glad we had that daylight savings change. I think I saved so much energy today because I didn’t have to turn on my living room lamp for an hour that I may not get an electric bill this month. And it sure did feel a lot more like summer with the sun up longer… so much so, that children were outside playing in shorts and t-shirts today. Understand that today’s high was 55, and most of the day the temp was 40-something. The kids don’t care, and apparently neither do the negligent parents. Is it so awful to wear pants and a jacket? What’s with these idiots?