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Originally Posted by Eric
Does anyone view this as another money grab .... a simple, and not really all that important rite of passage that now requires expensive clothing, cards, gifts and stretch limos .... and in certain parts of our country, particularly in smaller towns and villages, the almost inevitable alcohol fueled accidents.
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I'm all for a leaving do but I think they take things too far these days.
Recently in the Telegraph there have been photos of 4 and 5 year olds complete with mortar boards and scrolls 'graduating' from nursery to primary school.
What next?
Photos from the maternity ward of new born babies with mortar boards on in place of wooly hats with scrolls tucked into their blankets showing their 'graduation' from the womb?
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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs, cackling and telling me
'You'll be next.' They stopped when I started doing the same to them at funerals.
