The life-expectation of a great nation, it appears, commences with a violent, and usually unforeseen, outburst of energy, and ends in a lowering of moral standards, cynicism, pessimism and frivolity.
I have a hard time imagining anything more frivolous than a kid on a "hoverboard with his face glued to a smartphone".
Ah, I'm probably totally off base with that remark, the kid was probably learning calculus or ancient Sanskrit while on their way to a Rotarian meeting.
Hahaha yeah somehow I think the only calculation he was doing was how much battery time he had left :)
Maybe he was disabled and playing Pokemon Go? ;-)