Parents Behaving Badly

"No one player is bigger than the team," said Ben. "Not you, not anyone."

Logan grabbed his glove, brushed past Ben, and mumbled, "Whatever."

Few words rankled Ben more than whatever. It had been a perfectly innocuous pronoun for eons before teens turned it into the verbal equivalent of giving you the finger.

Come to think of it, yeahhh, it IS the verbal equivalent of giving people the finger hehe.