Vows

This past weekend I saw and heard an older couple - 50s? 60s? - in a parking lot, "discussing" the woman's apparently missing hat. He goes, "I don't keep track of your f***in' hat. You go look for it." I was like, fifty feet away from them and heard him loud and clear.

This is just wrong in so many ways and on so many levels. The most obvious - he shows inexcusable disrespect and verbally abuses her, in public no less.

Do people naturally behave like this, at a level far below savage? Or is it a learned behavior? Right - coming soon to an educational outlet near you: advanced degrees for sociopaths.

I remember seeing ads for Barbizon. For some reason their one-liner, "Be a model...or, just look like one!" stuck in my brain, and finds its way to the surface every now and then.

So here's one for foul-mouthed old-man wannabes:
Be an abusive jerk...or, just sound like one!