Dripping With Irony

Life is grand when you have a pre-teen babysitter in your own home. It gives you the freedom to haul off and go out with your wife without the normal hassles that keep you home when your children are younger. We get to go out, they get to stay at home by themselves. It's win-win.

So, Tracy and I decided to see a movie which was playing at the local mall. I guess most of the grown-ups were staying home to rest for work the next day, so the mall entrance courtyard was crawling with teenagers hanging out and doing the teenager thing.

I saw something on the way in that made me laugh out loud because they had no idea of the irony:

Two girls, probably 13, in full-blown goth garb with anti-establishment t-shirts standing on the curb. They were then picked up by their dad in his full-blown statement of being the establishment Ford Expidition.

Suburban angst really is tough to pull off well.