Kids asking very hard questions
The rascal had somehow figured out my phone’s password. He also had the audacity to unlock the phone right in my presence. Two vices I found alarming. FILE PHOTO
What you need to know:
- Questions they definitely have no answers to. He finally told me that I was not cool since I did not know Despacito. I always thought I was the cool uncle but clearly I was not. “Instead of reading books you are just there Despacitoing all over the place.” I fired back.
Some time during last year’s holidays I was watching Savage Kingdom, a wildlife documentary on DSTV’s National Geographical channel with my 14 year old nephew. Suddenly the boy broke the silence interrupting my concentration. “Uncle Mark,” he started.
“Have you heard of Despacito?” “Of course I have,” I answered confidently. Even when I do not know something I pretend to know.
You cannot go around showing kids you are that clueless uncle that never knows anything. “That’s the name of the new pizza that Cafe Javas is offering?” I responded nonchalantly.
The teenager started laughing really hard. I mean one of those irritating sarcastic laughs that people have for the sole intention of getting on the other person’s nerves.
“If you continue laughing like that you may go to bed hungry tonight.” I stated matter-of-factly.
He stopped laughing and started staring at me. A look that blatantly said that I was an uninformed moron. He picked up my phone and unlocked the device.
The rascal had somehow figured out my phone’s password. He also had the audacity to unlock the phone right in my presence. Two vices I found alarming.
I sat on the couch very unimpressed. Today’s kids feel like they can get away with anything. But that is expected because we live in a new era where kids can be brats and you can get locked up for giving them a beating. The young man opened the YouTube app and typed in something.
“This is Despacito.” He informed me with uttermost importance as a music video started playing in some mix of English and some sort of Mexican dialect. This Despacito song is not too bad I thought to myself at the brink of shaking my head to the reggaeton beats. But that was a distraction I finally deduced.
A distraction from what is important. And that is the fact that this kid was going around stealing people’s phone passwords, audaciously unlocking the phones in their presence and also asking them very complicated questions.
Questions they definitely have no answers to. He finally told me that I was not cool since I did not know Despacito. I always thought I was the cool uncle but clearly I was not. “Instead of reading books you are just there Despacitoing all over the place.” I fired back.
