Elderly fearful of youth. News at 11
by radioball - September 28, 2009 3:00pm
Wonderfully insane set of stories in todays T&G circling around what is likely to become Worcesters next big non-issue. As it turns out, elderly people are sometimes petrified of people who’re anything less than elderly.
Shocking.
Note to old people: If you’re incapable of seeing a dude in baggy pants without thinking ‘gang member’, people shake hands without believing you saw a drug deal or wobble around in constant fear of being knocked off your walker by a kid on a skateboard, you’re not a concerned citizen, you’re paranoid, delusional and xenophobic.
When the City Administration responds to complaints like these as if there’s an actual problem it forces one to wonder how a project like City Square, assuming it actually comes together sometime in the next few decades, is expected to succeed. How exactly does the city plan to capitalize on the mostly disposable incomes and general untainted enthusiasm of young people by chasing them away?
But what’s most interesting about this latest non-issue is the city response, cameras on the common to keep an eye on loitering. Not that language and the actual meaning of words is important to Worcester Administrators…
Loiter
verb [ intrans. ]
stand or wait around idly or without apparent purpose
… but it sounds like the only people loitering on the common are the old folks sitting around all day waiting for someone to come along and give them something to complain about. If loitering is the concern, I hope the WPD plans to act upon this scourge and lock up all the pensioners or at the very least give them them a ride back to their respective nursing homes where they can’t shit on anyones good time.