oh the i-r-o-n-y (11/3/14)

On my way home on the B38, minding my own business as usual, when a group of kids get on at Vanderbilt. Bishop Loughlin High School is right on the corner but it's unusual to see a group of kids boarding at nearly 7pm.

Noting their school uniforms and backpacks but no sports equipment, I assume they're participants in an academics-based extracurricular program. Perhaps theater or debate team, I imagine, pleased at the example set by these fine, black youngsters. Then this happens:

Girl: Yes it does!

Boy #1: No it doesn't.

Girl: Listen, "intelligence" has a "a" in it.

Boy #1: No it doesn't.

Girl: Yes it does! Spell it.

Boy #1: I don't have to 'cause I know. Ask [another boy's name].

Girl, hands on hips, addresses Boy #2: Right? Don't you spell "intelligence" with a "a"?

Boy #2: It's "in-TEH-lih-jins"

Girl: I KNOW.

Boy #2: So where you hear a "a" at?

Girl: You just said "in-TEH-lah-jins". That's a "a", right?

Boy #2: You stupid.

And I'm gonna let Boy #2's "where you hear a 'a' at" slide because...priorities.