"Can" does not equal "Should"

Just because you CAN do something does not mean you SHOULD.

Examples:
Just because you CAN get a viking the size of your arm tattooed on your whole arm, does not mean you SHOULD.

Just because you CAN squeeze into the acid-washed jeans you wore in high school doesn't mean you SHOULD.

Even though you CAN pour a forty of Alaskan Amber into a Diet Coke can so you can drink it while walking down the street, doesnt mean you SHOULD.

Just because you CAN wear high water jeans and skank-cruddy polo shirts to work doesnt mean you SHOULD.

Just because you CAN buy marijuana and sit around and smoke it all the time after your long, hard day of teaching elementary school, doesnt mean you SHOULD.


Any questions?

(For the record, I have personally encountered all of these things. I'll give you names if you need them.)

PDA - and I dont mean Palm's new Pre

Remember in the late 80s when it was cool for couples to walk around with their hands in each others' back pockets? And in the late 90s when it was cool for couples to hold "hands" by the pinkies?

Well, now, apparently it's "cool" for couples to grope each other in public and shove their tongues down each others' throats.

Seriously, people. I dont want to see that. Why do you want me to see that?

When I was a sophomore in college, I pledged a sorority. As part of the membership process, we had an older sister who was assigned to teach us the ways of the sorority. I remember very clearly the day she taught us what was unacceptable behavior at a sorority party. Smoking, drinking, swearing and spitting were forbidden while wearing your sorority letters. Dancing on bars (or otherwise trashily) and making out with boys in public were also unacceptable.

Sadly, many people were not so fortunate as to receive decency training from a member of the Royal Family. These are the people who have been spotted all over the globe, having private fun in public.

I'm generally pretty tolerant of tacky people: I merely jot down the activity in question and assign it to a chapter in my book ("We Don't Do Tacky: A Guide to Gentle Living", coming soon to a bookstore near you). But lately, the PDA thing has gotten out of hand. When people who aren't the bride and groom are open-mouth kissing in church (like, during the service), what is this world coming to!??!

Wafer and Shanks have both Tweeted about sickeningly displays. Makes me wish we could still "tap" people for being tacky, or write them up to the Standards committee or just say "TNT" and have it rectified.


QOD: "Do NOT be making out or messing around with your boyfriend in public. I mean, if it's that bad, just take it home." - LN, Pledge mom 2001