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Dear Lisi: While at dinner the other night, at a nice restaurant where each person’s meal would probably cost roughly $50, I overheard three teenagers speaking with one set of parents. From the way they addressed the adults, it became clear that one child belonged to the parents, while the other two did not.
Do our youth not have a grasp on the English language anymore? Yes, many words have become so commonplace that we don’t consider them rude any longer, but “cap”? These teenagers sounded anything but intellectual.Dumb it down When my children were growing up, I always left a $20 bill in my car, in case they were using it and it ran out of gas, or they had an emergency, and had no cash or credit card with them. During one of my business trips, one of my children took my car into a dealership for an oil change. When the car was returned, the $20 was missing. I emailed the dealership, and they had a similar reaction to this business owner.
Since the dealership basically called me a liar by saying no one in their employ would do this, I never went back to that dealership nor bought any car of that make again. And since we normally bought two new cars when the three-year warranties ran out on the old ones, the dealership with whom I had dealt for years ended up losing out on many sales. More than 25 years have passed, and I still remember how angry I was at what happened.
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