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Written by Staff
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Wednesday, 19 April 2006 |
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Late-night lessons.
A NEXTnc staffer was walking through the newest Wal-Mart supersore (yes, we meant to say sore) in Greeley on Saturday night and noticed a lot — at least 10 — kids under the age of 10 running around.
Not unusual at a Wal-Mart, to be sure, but it was a little past 11:30 p.m. We’re not ones to be handing out parenting tips, but shouldn’t the little whipper-snappers be at home counting sheep?
One parent, we’d probably overlook it, but obviously this was more than one set of parents thinking it’s OK for their hellions to be out that late. Granted, it’s not a school night, but WTF?
Hell, maybe it is OK. At least they’re being supervised.
Annoying hat trick.
During that same trip to Wal-Mart, we couldn’t help but notice another kid wearing his baseball cap crooked. Now, we were close to getting accustomed to the bills slightly crooked, when worn forward. But this fashion genius had it on backward, and crooked.
Are we getting too old?
The baggy pants? No problem.
Tattoos and spikes anywhere and everywhere? Not a biggie.
But the crooked hats drive us crazy.
Heck, we’d blame the crooked hat syndrome when northern Colorado’s own Shawn Chacon, when he was with the Rockies, had a bad outing. We rooted for the Greeley Central grad, but we couldn’t stand that he wore his hat slightly off kilter.
We know you get bent out of shape at trivial crap, too. Tell us what annoys you:
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