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Airheads With Airhorns
By Riverboat in Flotsam and Jetsam
June 5, 2010

It was my privilege to assist at the commencement ceremony last night. I always enjoy seeing former students all dressed up in robes to receive the well-deserved fruits of their labors.

Unfortunately, the evening was marred by extremely rude and disruptive behavior. Immature students giving their all one last time for old times’ sake?

Nope. I’m referring to the crowd. It seems that every other name that was announced was punctuated by loud blasts of airhorns. Some kept up the blasts for seconds. I understand family members being excited over their kid’s graduation, but a lot of other families also showed up to hear their kid’s name called. Too bad they couldn’t hear it because too many cretins sprinkled around the stands made it impossible.

Students have to go through a check-point to enter the gymnasium to ensure they won’t bring items that will ruin the solemnity. At the very least, the district should remind audience members to leave the noise at home. You’d think it shouldn’t be necessary to remind people of this, like it shouldn’t be necessary to remind people not to chew gum in church, or turn the cell phones off in a theater. But we live in an age in which boorish behavior has no limits.

I don’t think it’s too much to ask that people in the audience who ruin the solemnity of the occasion for others be told to leave. Better yet, they should be soundly clubbed with their own airhorns.

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