Writer responds to high school letters

To The Eagle:

I am getting sick and tired of all these teenagers who think people actually want to read their opinions. Their frivolous opinions fill valuable print space more suitable for stories about city counselmen bickering. Children should aspire to be more like adults. They should be more petty, hateful, and obsessed with the size of their neighbors pick-up trucks.

Adulthood is a solemn serious task, a daily regimen of mental hygiene duties. The last thing I need as an adult is the starry eyed idealistic musing of teenagers and their simple solutions to world problems cluttering my otherwise perfect routine. I have some serious hating to do and being re-directed towards optimistic thinking is quite physically painful for me.

In the future I hope in lieu of teen scribed editorials, you will consider printing pictures of oil spills.

Patrick Carrico

Wahkiakum County Resident