Originally Posted by
canadian_golf_guy
And the glazed over, half-dead, "miserable" look that the young people have is not caused by some mysterious disease or mental affliction sweeping the young, but is instead the result of being viciously hungover from several days of staying up till 4 a.m. to "drink, and to party, ... and listen to hip-hop music out at the beach." Trust me, if you drank until you "passed out naked in the sand" and then went hiking the next day in the 35 degree and 80% humidity heat, you would feel and look like a zombie too.
It's also because he was a grouchy old guy by the standards of the teens and 20-something people. What exactly did he expect in response by greeting a girl half his age walking alone?
Would anyone want their daughter to stop on the trail and converse with a random stranger in a foreign country while she was all alone?
Judging by his
picture, I'd want any daughter of mine to keep walking.