April 2007: Watch Your Mouth Around The Elderly!

SB #352 Pace bus: I am riding back to Chicago Heights Terminal from spending the Saturday afternoon at Harold Washington Library. On board is a short, elderly, Caucasian lady who usually boards the 352 NB not too far north of the terminal. She usually carries a large metal cart with her. Today, she lied on the row of priority seating on the left side of the bus and placed her cart next to it. I was towards the back of the bus, but even further back were some teens, five of them, who attend Bloom High School in Chicago Heights. The bus was virtually empty, something highly unusual for the 352 on a Spring Saturday afternoon, just me, the elderly lady, and the five teens at the back of the bus.
Oh my gosh! Every 10 seconds, one of them dropped a swear word or two, but nothing was worse than what a boy in the group said to another boy in the group to get a confirmation from him about something he said regarding a girl's private area.

"You said that her koochy wrinkled?"

My thought was, "You all are so darn disrespectful of this elderly woman! I'm sure that she hears all of this!"

Nevertheless, the woman made no physical or oral reactions to the teens' filthy mouths.