Our Corrupt Youth

Really?  What has this world come to?  Are these really the times we live in or did I just step out of a movie set?  These are the questions I find myself asking this evening as I reminise about the event I encountered at the grocery store earlier today.  I also sit here wondering if I should be thanking the Lord for my life, or pray for the life of this little boy... hmm, that is a toughy!

This evening I went to the grocery store to pick up two small things I needed for dinner.  With my six month old daughter in my arms, I head toward the cereal isle and a little boy about 11 years old stands in front of me.  He holds a box of cereal up in one hand, grasping something tight in the other, stares in my eyes and says "Put your f*****g hands up."

At that moment I am saying "What?" but my mouth is not moving.  I stand completely still and wonder what the hell is going on.  A thousand thoughts rush through my mind in a seconds time.  Grasping my daughter tight, I am ready to do whatever it takes to keep her safe... and here comes from out of nowhere this kids grandmother.  Oh, she grabbed him by the ear and drug him down the isle towards the front of the store and boy was she ripping him a new one... and that was the last I saw of them. 

Now that I am home and have had time to think about the event and process what had happened, I am really bothered and sick to my stomach.  Why did the Grandma not make him apologize to me?  Did that kid really want to rob me and had a case of bad timing?  Is this kid going to do this to someone else?  What just happened?

I guess at the time I was just so grateful that my daughter and I were safe that it did not even cross my mind that I should probably call the police.  Now it is too late.  You know, it just blows my mind that a child could even be brave enough to pull a joke like that, or was it a joke at all?  I don't know.  I am, speachless.  What has happened to our youth?