Why I don't want children

Yesterday I was sitting on the subway coming home, listening to my MD player and playing Dope Wars on my palm pilot. (The best mindless game to pass the 30 minutes on the TTC.) Next to me were 2 girls, who I think were about 15/16 years old, but I couldn't stare at them so not really sure. I'm pretty sure they were not out of high school though.

Every so often I could hear snippets of their conversation but I really wasn't paying attention, until near the end of my journey, things started catching my ear. I still couldn't hear everything, even though I eventually turned off my MD just to hear better. One girl had this ghetto/bronx accent, and the other sounded similar. The ghetto girl was clearly the more experienced/wise and was giving advice to the innocent girl.

Here are some extracts:

Sample 1
Ghetto - What do you care? He's still yours, she can't have him.
Innocent - I know, but still, it bothers me...
Ghetto - I don't care what he does, he can do it in front of me, but he belongs to me and not her and at the end of the day I've got him and she doesn't.

[Ed's note - that's actually kind of good advice, in a twisted way...]

Sample 2

Innocent - Well, there was this one time where things definitely, definitely went too far...it was at this party...but you know what, even when he was doing [couldn't hear], it didn't feel, like, good, or anything.
Ghetto - Really? You didn't feel anything?
Innocent - Well, I wasn't really enjoying it...
Both - giggle giggle

Sample 3
Ghetto - but you know what, the most important thing is that anyone you do it with really cares about you. All the guys I've done it with I've really... [indistinguishable]....

[Ed's note - !!!!!!!! How many? She's only like 17!!!!!!]

Sample 4
Innocent - So have you ever, like, done it with someone you've just met?
Ghetto - what do you mean - like on a first date?!
Innocent - Yeah.
Ghetto - No way! Except for this one time....
[indistinguishable]
Innocent - You did it with a stranger?!
Ghetto - No, he was my date!

[Ed's note - !!!!!!!]

Sample 5
Innocent - So when was the first time you did it?
Ghetto - I was 14.
[indistinguishable]

[Ed's note - !!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

I cannot risk having children and have them run around and do the stuff the girls were talking about doing. I think at one point they were laughing about the drugs they were doing too, and how high they got, or some such garbage. How does this happen?! Where are their parents? My worst fear is that their parents are perfectly good parents, like ours maybe, and their kids still turn out like this because that is what the world today is. I don't understand. But I'm scared.

Oh yeah - and why the hell would you be talking about your sex life in front of everybody so they could hear?!