In the new ballroom craze, marijuana, ectasy, and malt liquor are strictly declasse. At local headshops, hand-blown champagne flutes are replacing glass pipes in the display cases. And well-heeled young dancers can buy solid silver champagne buckets engraved with surfing motifs. But downtown merchants object to the teens' dress and dancing, claiming that they intimidate customers and drive away business.
People here dress casually.
They can wear shorts to the symphony, if they want. But when they come downtown to shop and see all these kids dressed to the nines, they're intimidated. The kids got so much class that our customers feel like slobs. So they take their business to Capitola instead, where nobody cares. I tell you, it's killing my business.