Young People Hanging around Shops

September 19th, 2008 by mas | Filed under Society & Issues.

This made me smile - I called in to our local shop tonight. It was dark and as I got to the shop there was a gang of young people hanging around - some of them sat on a grass embankment next to the shop, a couple by the doorway and a couple around a motorcycle.

As I got close one of the young people dashed inside the shop and when I entered was running around it. As he passed me by he said “don’t worry he’ll be here in a minute”, shortly after the shop assistant appeared and apologised because he’d been out the back clearing boxes. As I left the shop the lad that had gone in to find the assistant held the door open for me - I thanked him and left.

It made me smile because like most people on getting to the shop I wondered what they were all up to - of course most probably nothing at all - just hanging around where theres some light while a couple tinkered with the motorbike, and as it seemed looking out for the shop too.

It reminded me of the Buzz Off campaign against mosquito devices and the Downing Steet E-Petition which only got a pretty rubbish 149 supporters. Presumably the local shop here won’t be installing any anyway!