Student in the Parent's cafe - etiquette?

[FountainSiren]

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Part of me wants to say - well, if they want to play with the big kids, so be it - treat them like everyone else here in the PC. But… I can’t do it. I’m a Dad. I expect teenagers to be occasionally snotty and lacking in perspective - even teenagers as smart as we generally see here in CC. I want to cut them slack

Intellectual or anti-intellectual, I don’t have a lot of patience for people who repeat lies about those they consider to be “the other side” without bothering to check whether they’re true or not, even when they’ve been repeatedly and publicly debunked. FountainSiren

Kluge,
being the exception to your thoughtful concern, let me say that I have no problem with being addressed as if I were, as you say, a “big kid.” Although I cannot claim to have ever shared your perspective in any post that I can now recall, I have never felt that I was particularly ill-treated, as a teenager, in your discourse </p>

<p>But then, I have some perspective. </p>

<p>There are, as you say, “dads,” and a feisty mom or two, here who have in fact spewed hateful invective in my direction in place of a reasoned opinion, rational defense or show of dignity, but I always felt that there lack of grace–sadly considering their years–reflected more upon their aged and souring etiquette than upon their fresh and ripening target…but, in their defense, perhaps I have an inflated impression of their once-upon-a-time youthful gentility: some fruit sours even while plump and hanging from the tree…</p>

<p>A lack of class is a lack of class, no matter the years of the subject or the object in any particular diatribe or opinion. I prefer to be addressed with wit, wisdom and humor, and I hope to offer the same.</p>