Quote Originally Posted by MacSimoin
This is actually one of the funniest things written in this thread. "Teenaged Me" would have no doubt been scared to death of "Me Now" but we'd both probably be frightened out of our wits by "Middle Aged Me", who's been banging on the door for the past year. I don't think he's going away.
We were in Washington DC once during some of the World Trade Talks and the attendant student demonstrations that go with them. My son was terrified that we were going to get caught up in one of the demonstrations and be gassed and arrested by the DC cops...we were there as tourists but everywhere we went we ran into the demonstrators. On day we're walking over to the National Gallery and from around the corner comes the whole big slew of psuedo-hippie demonstrators...my son just freezes...and I lean over and tell him, "If any of them give you any trouble just point at me and say 'You see this guy? This is my dad and he was a hippie back in the sixties and seventies and he was at the '68 Democratic Convention in Chicago and now he's bald, fat, got two kids, a mortgage and drives a station wagon...so live it up while you can cause this is what the future has in store for you!'"

To quote Frank Zappa: "The future is scary...yes, it sure is!"


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