Kids These Days – They’re Young

Greetings, my fellow port swillers!

Ol’ Robbo was chatting with Youngest Gel as he drove her over to swim practice this evening.  “So,” I said, “How was school today? Do anything productive?”

“Nah,” she replied, “Just the usual.  You know: skipped class, smoked some weed, got it on with a guy out behind the trailers.”

Were I not driving, I’d have smacked her one.  Young smart-ass.

She was also ranting about some “spontaneous” student walk-out that’s supposed to happen on the 19th anniversary of the Columbine shootings.  Because guns bad, or something.  “Be damned if I’m going to do that,” she said, “Those people are idiots.”

That’s my gel!

By the bye, what is it with the Kidz these days and their “Dilly, Dilly!”  I first heard this being said some time early last December and it seems to have spread.  I assume it’s some sort of positive interjection, but where on earth did it come from?