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To: The KG9 Kid

Ah. KG9 Kid.

It sounds lousy when you are young. I guarantee when you are old it sounds like something I desperately wish I’d done. You don’t feel old inside—see, that’s the secret. It’s the same you. But suddenly, it’s there and you need more pills and you can’t just go out and get a manual labor job and honestly, noone want’s to hire you when you’re 60. No matter how cool and employable I was when I was 30 and 40, it ain’t true anymore.

And if you can’t handle the “exciting adventures at age 79” idea, try, the not having to eat dog food when you’re 79 idea. Or, the being able to buy you grandaughter a gift for her birthday idea when you’re 79 idea. I guarantee it’ll mean plenty when you’re there.

Noone wants to take away your grand adventure. Just save 15% of what you make while you’re on it.


21 posted on 02/24/2011 11:42:18 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: ModelBreaker
"... And if you can’t handle the “exciting adventures at age 79” idea, try, the not having to eat dog food when you’re 79 idea."

Presuming God allows me to live to 79, it will be less like eating dog food and more like eating dogs.

I'm imagining an America something more like whatever survivors there are will be roaming the derelict wasteland of the collapsed American empire, wearing hockey gear lined with rabbit fur and driving around on cobbled-together warmachines made of salvaged car parts -- doing battle with crossbows on the crumbling highways for the last remnants of petrol resources, fresh water, and whatever loose ammunition there is left.

Either that, or society survives in a miserable gray concrete collective of neo-Soviet influence with bullhorns rousing us from our communal sleep chambers blasting scratchy Maoist revolutionary martial music goading us to the morning group flag exercises on the nearby athletic field. Then, all of us shaven-headed citizen comrades will hurry away to our societal-ordained labor pools denoted by our specialized jumpsuit colors, right after the morning Vegan meal of cold starchy noodles with our choice of simulated flavoring. By then, President Obama will be regarded to be much the same sort of man that Teddy Roosevelt is remembered by left wingers today -- an repulsive ultra-right cavalier lunatic leader of a shameful age, a fitting example of everything that was wrong with the "Old Amerika".

Given a choice, I prefer the first scenario even if I have to eat barbequed dogs shot with a crossbow from atop my battlecar. At least there'd be hope for a Renaissance at some point in the distant future after the Dark Ages petered out.

24 posted on 02/25/2011 12:06:33 AM PST by The KG9 Kid
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