recent observations - ludicrous!

--This past weekend, I saw a teenage girl in a restaurant who was wearing a t-shirt with an illustration of a heart with a jagged chasm down the middle. Surrounding the image, in a goofy font I have not yet been able to duplicate, it read "You break it, you bought it."

(sigh)

What message was being communicated here? All I could imagine was that a very bitter mother somewhere was indoctrinating her little egg-spawn into the school of abrasive, grasping, gold-digging harpies that might deserve more love than they're ever going to realize. If the mother's philosophy was not involved and it was, in fact, the girl's idea to wear it, what parent would miss the obviousness of the implied message in favor of "cuteness"? Strident response aside, someone's going to be very popular at the prom.