Robert Stolarik for The New York Times
The crowd hangs out after a shopping-cart demolition derby in the parking lot of Wendy's in Wantagh, N.Y
According to the article, many teenagers in suburban community hang out and spend their summer evening time at fast food parking lot like Dunkin' Donuts, Wendy's, Taco Bell , Burger King and so on. Most of them were boys and others were girls. Why they hang out at there like a fast food parking lot is there is nothing else to do and no where to go at night. Usually, most of fast food restaurants open 24 hours and offer huge parking spaces even the restaurants are in suburban. A parking lot may be an ugly, utilitarian place but this was as much an American rite of suburban adolescence as it was a local one. Furthermore it can be irresistibly attractive, a blacktop oasis safe from parents and teachers.
To quote from some parts of this article, most of them were polite kids acting cool but several boys had Mohawks topped with baseball caps with the tightly curved bill favored by dorm room dudes: something of a "punk rocker meets Abercrombie & Fitch" look. In addition, some girls went on explaned how they kept stay out so late. They told a lie to their parents or usually thier mothers would cover for them if their fathers called the next day. Most of them were already drunken and some of the guys began teasing the girls and chasing them around. The girls yelled "Free dome shots," a euphemism for oral sex. They were only joking, they said. When they make a trouble, the police cars inevitably descend. Then the kids scatter, regroup and move to another lot whose coordinates are agreed upon over a network of cellphones.
After reading this article, I thought rash expansion of fast food restaurants has bad influence to teenagers. The fast food companies just open stores and never concerned about around stores. That is the purpose of all if they make money. Also, the government don't give a permission that open a fast food store to the fast food companies easily. Furthermore, in order to prevent that the teenagers comit bad doing at night, the government disburses a lot of money to bulid facilities for the suburban teenagers. On the surface, to be occupied by many fast food restaurants, it looks urban city and getting grow prosperous city. However
the city would get in many trouble internally.
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