It happened while I was eating supper with my mom at Bellacino’s on Hwy 109. A tatted up guy came with a profane shirt. (I found a version of the shirt online here). My mom didn’t notice, but I was very much distracted by it. I was distracted that someone would think it was appropriate to buy and wear in public. This was what I thought was a family restaurant. But somehow I get the feeling that Bellacino’s Hwy 109 location is simply in a shady part of town, being connected to a liquor store. I’m pretty sure the liquor store and the restaurant are owned by the same person.
Also I was somewhat surprised that the Bellacino’s employee took great amusement in the shirt asking the guy to turn around so he could admire it. Had I been the manager I would have asked him to leave.
I’m fairly certain the wearer of the said shirt will do nothing with his life in his current state. He’s somewhat like the Stiles character in Teen Wolf who’s profane t-shirt has caused problems with television censors ever since.
This is nothing new. When I was in junior high and with my sister’s Sunday School class monthly outing to the mall, I can remember being told not to go the back part of Spencer’s Gifts because there were things that I shouldn’t see.
However somehow I’ve outgrown the juvenileness of profanity. Why was that guy wearing the Mickey Mouse gasmask shirt? He wanted to get a reaction out of people. He is juvenile. He wants attention. Don’t show him any attention. Don’t even hire him. Let him learn on his own to grow up.