Sunday, June 14, 2009

do they ever grow up!?

so after the past few days of seeing/hearing about/experiencing extremely inappropriate behaviors by supposedly "grown" men, i began to ponder the idea of at what age men actually outgrow these actions! these are a few things i observed over the past weekend:

-a guy dropping his pants and waddling around the bar in his boxers with his pants around his ankles
-a guy that was extremely drunk and attempting to grope every girl that walked by
-a guy using the phrase "we're gonna rip a bong"
-a guy telling a girl that he didn't have a girlfriend... mere minutes after putting his girlfriend in a cab home
-a guy sticking his tongue (literally) down his girlfriend's throat while at the pool in the middle of the day, and in front of a large group of people

if all this happened in one weekend and i was aware of it all then i can only imagine what happens over the span of a month, or a year, or heaven forbid a whole lifetime. but at what age do these behaviors become unacceptable?? my mom has always told me that men never change, so i shouldn't get my hopes up that they will ever fully grow up. but would it really be too much to ask that they at least learned some manners or left certain behaviors to high school and college-aged boys and acted like actual men? i know that women have their faults, and i'm sure at times act immature or inappropriate, but as a whole i think we tend to control ourselves and act in ways that reflect our "age and not our shoe size" as the saying goes.

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