Your parents knew what they were doing, if they managed to turn out the likes of you,

So did the sun shine? we feel we both can't miss out, nor can we ignore it, no matter how useless it might be. Texts! I feel we I am expected to respond almost immediately. This is why I have a landline.

College is where the youth are taught how to behave as compliant adults. It's continued indoctrination, including by the notion that having debt, and paying it off, is something an adult must do. A nephew

I also wish I could get on a private jet now and then. I could travel with my dog, and I wouldn't have to feel humiliated and uncomfortable for the two hours I have to be at the airport before being, finally,

Back when the onus of proving a person was not a criminal did not fall to the person themself. One trip on an airplane should be enough to stop anyone from taking an airplane ever again, but it doesn't.

ha. Back when no one picked up their dog shit, you mean? Those little bags were not even a thing, and we all left the crap on the ground as fertilizer. No one cared. Children learned how to not step in

Back in the good old days, if I am remembering correctly, no one picked up their dog's shit.

I enjoyed working hard in my youth, but now that I am 71, I really resent all the paperwork, registrations, renewals, insurance, bank crap etc that I have to do. I have less time to be a productive community

I wish I found that funny, but I do not. It's true.

I loved college. It was there that I understood I had some capabilities that set me apart from most. Of course my degree, a masters in Mathematics, was largely useless, I still felt powerful enough to

Dang, it is really good!

This is a pretty sorry time to cash out! I too post rarely, which I like. I'd hate to lose all the friends I've made here, although I sometimes think about setting autovotes and taking a good long break.

You're still able to end on an upbeat! I'm glad you're back.

A good read! I guess I had the idea instilled in my brain that having a job meant actually working, The time sure goes faster, and you get to have a sense of pride. Sounds like I would have loved having

I look back on that job with a sense of pride. I can see why! You learned valuable life lessons that cannot be taught in a classroom. Unschooling, I would call this. Your father must have been very proud

Can't see that they are ever wrong, no matter how perverse their beliefs.

They still think he was competent.

Are you speaking English?

a chevy sedan? I don't know cars. I don't care about them. although as I age I find I'd like a mustang convertible. Back to my youth, when the cutest boys drove mustangs.

what is a friend shaped car? I'd like to get walkie talkies and ham radio going, but there is only so much I can do. Next up are solar generators.