Boys

Will I ever understand the male species?  I know that I share some of the same aggressive tendencies, so who knows where I fall in terms of classification.   I know that I will get no sympathy for my sympathy for Terrence Hough, the firefighter who took the lives of three people last summer over loud noise.  If I kept a loaded gun in my house, who knows what I might do on my bad days. 

I do know that I wish the boys in my neighborhood were not so preoccupied with marking their territories with gang graffiti and "blocking."  My neighbor, an older boy, told me that the three cars in my neighborhood that travel around blaring earshattering, thumping noise are engaged in the male sport of one upmanship.  Who can out blare the other by "carrying" their sound furtherest. Well, here is one girl, who wishes they could just settle their contest by peeing on a bush and leaving the rest of us in peace.