TRI-COUNTY MALL, RATED R: UNDER 17 NOT ADMITTED WITHOUT PARENT OR GUARDIAN

[defrog]

Staying with Ohio ...

ITEM: Tri-County Mall in Cincinnati is carding people after 4pm on Fridays and Saturdays to keep out minors trying to cruise the mall on weekends.

It’s part of the creepily named “Youth Escort Policy” that says anyone under 18 must be accompanied by a parent, guardian or anyone over the age of 21.

"Being youth, and being in large numbers unsupervised, they tend to get loud and rowdy and detract from a comfortable shopping atmosphere,” said General Manager Michael Lyons.

To enforce the rules, there will be extra security at every entrance of the mall.

I confess, the Cranky Old Man in me is kind of sympathetic to the spirit of the thing, if only because we have teenagers running rampant here in Disco Bay hanging out at the 24-hour McDonalds until 3am, and Jesus H Christ On A Biscuit they’re f***ing annoying.

But then we all were at that age, even if we didn't realize it. As were our parents. And grandparents (depending on yr age, since teenagers were only invented in the 1950s). Same old story: Older Generation tells Younger Generation they’re loud and crazy degenerates and Younger Generation laughs in their faces at their quaint rules.

Anyway, I doubt the YEP (and seriously, that’s a terrible name) will be all that effective, depending on how much you look like yr older brother/sister’s driver’s license photo (you know, the one you use to buy Schaefer’s Beer at the Circle K), or the “adult” who brings you. As if 21-year-olds are any better behaved by default.

Or some grown-ups, for that matter.

Shoppers gonna shop,

This is dF

Comments

[layla-aaron.livejournal.com]

*headdesk* If it's not the state I was born in, it's the one I currently live in. Better yet, the city I live in. I don't frequent that mall anyway, but aren't malls teen territory anyway? Isn't that how it's been for many, many years?

[def-fr0g-42.livejournal.com]

They were when I was that age. The mall was THE place to be seen.

And for the record, my dad was from Ohio, so it's not like I get any pleasure reporting these things. :)

[layla-aaron.livejournal.com]

That's how it was for me, and I soooo hated that I didn't have the parents who'd let me roam the mall freely back in the day. I wanted to be cool and wanted to go where the cool kids went.

Okay, so you're from TN and your dad's from OH; I'm from TN and live in OH. Any other similarities? :) (If you're a redhead, then the world is in serious trouble. *g*)

[def-fr0g-42.livejournal.com]

In that case, the world is in VERY serious trouble. :)

Also, if one of yr parents is British, that's the ball game.

[layla-aaron.livejournal.com]

ROFL...neither parent is British, but my husband is. Does that count?

[def-fr0g-42.livejournal.com]

No.

On the other hand, my wife is from Hong Kong, which is a former British colony, and she has a BNO passport, so ... ZOMFG!

[layla-aaron.livejournal.com]

There we go. LOL

Where in TN are you from? I know I asked before, but I've got a goldfish memory at the moment.

[puffdoggydaddy.livejournal.com]

Yeah...I'm on both sides of that issue. I was one of those kids who ran the mall and the countryside.

But, now I'm the grumpy old man who wants the skate punk to get the hell out of his way so I can get my mall stuff done and get my ass on down the road.