why don't youngsters listen?

[Yellow_Festiva]

Not just youngsters! All ages, all walks of life. It takes all types to make the world go round...

Adults still smoke, kids still jig school, businesses still cook the books, drivers still speed, back packers still travel without insurance, guys running late still run red lights, girls still drink to excess and make mistakes, people still marry or go out with the wrong people, most drivers still drive while talking / texting
etc etc etc...

All the above would have been told and shown how wrong it is. It is just human nature to think we know best and that any issues / consequences that we know may happen certainly won't happen to us.. Been there, done that myself.. several times!

And when it does... what is the response...

"I TOLD ya so".

Like you said, no skin off your nose. Perhaps they will learn for next time, perhaps they won't.

Last time I told someone they were driving on a flat I got an earful of the most filthy, un ladylike abuse because I should have 'minded my own business'....

So, when the (very butch looking) girl at the air pump in front of me did all 4 tyres of her Korean Barina at 55psi I didn't say a word... 'No skin off my nose'....