Old Fart Values

Call me a curmudgeon if you will.  Thing is, some trends in fashion, decorum and integrity bother me.

Men in baseball caps:
1.  Wearing them backwards.  The only people who did that back in the day were baseball catchers.  Now, you see it every day, everywhere.  Looks dumb.

2.  Wearing them in upscale restaurants.  Dumber.

3.  Wearing them at my dinner table.  Dumbest.  You may eat outside.

Ink: 
As in tattoos.  OMG, it's everywhere!  I don't mind moderate, tasteful ink, like a butterfly peaking out from a shapely woman's midriff.  However, when I see a person that is obviously not well off financially wearing ink from here to breakfast, I shake my head in despair. 

What does ink cost?  I have no idea but pretty sure it's not cheap.  Are these folks clueless about saving to buy a home, pay off the auto loan, and so on?

Holes:
In body parts.  For attaching hardware, decorations and small kitchen appliances.  In ladies' ears, okay; one hole per ear.  4-8 holes per ear, not so much.  In men's ears?  Sorry, doesn't work for me.  In navels, nipples, tongues, noses, lips, other body parts I can't even imagine - either sex: what the hell have you been smoking?

Integrity:
A man's word is his bond.  Okay, I'm an idealist about some things.  Still, if a person says he/she is going to do something, and others are depending on him/her to do it, then they damned well better do it.  Recently, a guy I regarded as a friend volunteered to help with a non-profit project.  We needed to get a quote from a local vendor, maybe a 30 minute task.  I was out of town at the time so I asked my 'friend' to take care of it.  He refused, said he had too much to do at home (he's retired).  Okay, Mr Flake, do what you gotta do - but you're no friend of mine.

In Conclusion:
Yeah, a curmudgeon and a dinosaur.  In a long line of dinosaurs.  No doubt my parents looked at my generation with equal dismay, thought the world was going to hell in a handbasket.  I've never understood that saying, seems an odd way to travel, regardless of destination - very cramped.