Skool Daze

@Observing: Thanks. It's why I like to have a camera on me at all times.

@MadScientist: Now that you mention it. But then, it's amazing how much English is just German. I think you guys just starting merging whole sentences into single words in order to confuse us.

@Anthony: I struggled over the right title.

@danthro: My guess would be that the parents, or another sibling, put the message on the vehicle. Note that it's a Cadillac SUV --quite expensive. A new tire for one of these babies --one tire-- goes for $500. So, either the whole family can't spell, or the parents chose to drive around with it misspelled instead of making a correction. Do we not want to harm little Johnny's self-esteem? And if that's the case, we're forced to consider the fact that these parents thought driving around like this was less harmful to little Johnny's self-esteem than making a correction. Whatever the explanation, I think it all says quite a bit about the condition of our society.

@Melissa W.: Devolving at an accelerating pace I'm afraid. Though I also wonder if we are not bifurcating into two classes of some kind: rulers and ruled, new aristocracy and underclass, elite and ordinary, or rich and poor. Lines from the Yeats poem keep running through my mind, like: "the best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity," and "things fall apart, the center cannot hold."