Epimetheus

Kids These Days.

Questions: During your formative years, did you ever

• sneak into your mom’s handbag, snake her Junior Mints, eat them, and then have the presence of mind to lie in your sleep when she asks, “Did you eat my Junior Mints?”
• consume an entire bag of sugarless candy and then puke all over your bed later that night?
• sneak into the living room on xmas morning, @ 5:00 AM, to see what your parents got you for xmas?
• fill your parents email inbox with fake spam?

Here is a spam, or 迷惑メール (mewaku mail), sample from my youngest:

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She was kind enough to say, “Make sure to scroll down to the bottom.” I scrolled, and scrolled, and scrolled, and finally reached the bottom of the message. There was nothing but more garbled text. I said, “There is nothing but garbled text!” Her comeback, “Of course, that’s why they call it 迷惑メール!”

Smart-ass. We will be shipping her off to boarding school on Monday.