Title: Hypocritical adults
by eleisha from Surrey | in writing, fiction
3 well behaved teenagers are walking down the road they don't look particularly bad behaved, just like normal teenagers, they walk into a shop and a man is standing at the counter staring at them.
Teenager 1: What are you getting?
Teenager 2: A magazine
The shopkeeper is still staring at them and now another man walks out from the back of the shop, he starts to walk around the shop keeping an eye on them. Meanwhile another man walks into the shop, he can see that the shop workers are too busy watching the teenagers, the teenagers are chatting and giggling quietly.
Shopkeeper: Excuse me can I help you
Teenager 1: No thank-you we're fine
This continues for a few minutes, the man is looking a lot more suspicious than the
Teenagers but the shopkeepers are too busy to notice this.
Shopkeeper: Ok that's enough you guys have got to leave
Teenager 3: Why, what have we done?
Shopkeeper: You're just here to cause trouble, its all your kind want to do
Teenager 1: What do you mean 'our kind'?
Shopkeepers: You 'teenagers' now go
The shop workers come and escort the teens out, while they are busy accusing innocent people, you see the suspicious man in the shop pick up a few things and stuff them in his pocket. Then they walk back in
Man: Thieving lowlifes
Shopkeeper: Yeah.
Then the man leaves with the stolen stock and the shopkeepers haven't got a clue
Voiceover as it zooms out: this is something that happens all the time, innocent teenagers are accused of crimes, if these shopkeepers had not been so judgemental they may have noticed the actual criminal in their shop. It's hard enough being a teenager without hypocritical adults making it worse.
My story is showing how tough it is for well behaved teenagers nowadays, there aren't many places we can go without being looked down at. My story shows that adults are just as capable of crime, and adults need to give teenagers the benefit of the doubt. My inspiration was something that happened to me, I was in a shop a few months ago and a man was watching me then he chucked me out and accused me of stealing. In wasn't doing anything wrong, he was just really judgemental.
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