De Yewts of Today

Overheard last night at BAM's Harvey Theater where Fiona Shaw is currently performing in Samuel Beckett's A Good Day: Two women approximately 18 years old were leaving the theater when one said to the other, "I hate it when something is supposed to be serious and people laugh." "Shit," I think, "There goes my whole reason for existing." Are kids today really so humorless and without sense of irony? It pains me to see such lovely, unlined skin and naturally colored hair wasted on the young.