Some one please hold Traveler while I mount and draw my saber. Thank you. Today I ride out to smite the ..... crap where do you start? How about the trench coat wearing, body pierced kid who walks to school singing helter-skelter? Naw he's ok, he told his mom this morning that 9 outa 10 voices say "don't shoot". How did he get like that, no parental controls? Good lets get his Marlboro smoking, dirty sweat pant wearing mom. Well she can't help him she has to work two minimum wage jobs .Wait I've got it, get the economists ! No that won't help, they reproduce too fast. Who do I focus my frustration on? Well bunkie I'm gonna tell you......nobody.
Despite what the TV pundits tell you, there ain't a whole lot you can do to change much of anything. What you can do is live your life in the way you feel is right. Put on the Bean boots , flannel lined Orvis khakis , blue button down and walk proudly where ever you go. Try to remember the man and woman with matching mullets probably think you look a bit odd. " Hey dude Mr Howell called he wants his look back" They're wrong and I'm right, but short of electrical shock treatment ( hey I made a funny electrical-short-shock) you'll never convince them. So channel your energy into living a well mannered life with class and style.
Maybe I'll just ride down and smack that kid across the keester with the flat of my saber. Ok Ok I'm getting down. Oh man! Bad horsie! On the new carpet!
It helps if you keep the television off too.
ReplyDeleteOh you are so right James.
ReplyDeleteSometime it is very hard to resist the urge to smack the hell out of rude people,but we must restrain ourselves.
I'd like to wish you and yours a healthy, happy and prosperous 2010, I hope you have many blessing in the year to come and I look forward to getting to know you better.
Much love,
Lia
xx
I'm laughing in my office because I think the kid in the trench coat is my assistant. Happy New Year!!!
ReplyDeleteMy Grandmother always used to say, very calmly; "Let it go my dear..."
ReplyDeleteShe was a wise woman,
I am not
But I can always pass on her advice!
You are so correct on this!! Honestly, I don't even mind the piercings and tat's if they're polite. I actually have been surprised the past few months by two young men who looked exactly like you're describing but they held the door open for me and wished me a 'good day, ma'am.'
ReplyDeleteHonestly, though, what I want to know is when did low income mean low class? Growing up I lived in an area where so many people were at poverty level, yet people remained clean, neatly dressed and polite.
When did this change?