Two articles on "brats in public"

Those are real quotes, not the scare kind :)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14136994/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14348175/

I'll post my opinion later, because it's more fun to read what other people say.

I don't get it.

It takes me, depending on how much I care, anywhere from a few minutes to several repetitions to remember a poem, song, or interesting quotation in a book. I learned "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" by memorizing couplet by couplet, each couplet required only one repetition. So that took me less than twenty minutes, not counting the break I took to set it to music.

But in between deciding to do something and reaching my hand out to grab whatever I need to do it with, I'll forget both what I'm reaching for and why I want it, and often several other related details as well.

That's totally and completely unfair.