Good Grooming – It’s Swell!
It is possible that I sat up last night watching clips like these for four hours. Clips on “Being Popular” (tip – don’t park in cars), “Being a good housewife” (tip- don’t talk too much), “Being a good female employee” (tip- do what you’re told and shut up). As amusing as the clips are, the comments left by viewers are just as hilarious at times. But I particularly liked this one about the habits of good grooming and it made me wonder, just where are children taught things like this these days?
For many of my generation these things were still learnt at home where we were fortunate to learn by good examples. However, a visit to any local shopping mall will leave you in little doubt that there is a big, gapping, badly groomed hole in the education of today’s teenager. The things I take for granted, like knowing how to use an iron, have become rare and exotic skills in today’s teenage repetior. And taking a clean handkerchief out with you? Well the only handkerchieves I see on most teenagers are the ones masquerading as skirts.
Perhaps if the cast of Glee did a version of this film we’d have more luck guiding the next generation on the path to ‘keeping it nice’.
This clip is from the Prelinger Archives.
