I was travelling recently and stopped at a Safeway in Interlocken, CO to pick up some lunch. There was only one picnic table so I asked the two girls sitting there if they minded if I joined them. They were both chain smoking and one had a large tatoo on her lower back. I guessed that they were about 17 - 18.
One of them was fairly friendly and initiated a conversation with me. When I asked her where she was going to college she said that she was a freshman in high school! What would that make her, 14 or 15?
My daughter is 9 going on 10 in December and she still believes in the tooth fairy. Scary to think that this girl was only 4 or 5 years older.
By the way, Interlocken is an affluent community with many new developments thats just outside of Boulder. The girl was originally from Jersey City and she made mention that this was her piece of "suburbia". It did appear to be a rather sterile environment.
I guess that living in such a place and tooling around in a gas guzzling SUV while clutching a cell phone is the new American dream.
It's definitely not for me...but I digress.
One of them was fairly friendly and initiated a conversation with me. When I asked her where she was going to college she said that she was a freshman in high school! What would that make her, 14 or 15?
My daughter is 9 going on 10 in December and she still believes in the tooth fairy. Scary to think that this girl was only 4 or 5 years older.
By the way, Interlocken is an affluent community with many new developments thats just outside of Boulder. The girl was originally from Jersey City and she made mention that this was her piece of "suburbia". It did appear to be a rather sterile environment.
I guess that living in such a place and tooling around in a gas guzzling SUV while clutching a cell phone is the new American dream.
It's definitely not for me...but I digress.