This post will probably sink like a stone...

[MuseRider]

90. I would also rather do those things BUT

WE know what that brings. We certainly did not get to the high points by picking our noses and watching Hee Haw. Work was not shunned it was appreciated. It kept us busy and our brains sharper than doing nothing and we KNEW it. Learning was fun and we knew it would bring us good things. Later we learned that there was a place for fun but to live we had to work to keep things up and running. Like to eat? When your sister closes up that venue there is little else to do but starve OR get loaded.

I just buried a close family member who was only 3 years younger than me. He lived the life of drink and drugs but always had some kind of job when not in jail. He never took anything serious and could never be swayed or employed for long. I never could figure out how he got that way until the drink and drugs came in, then I knew. How he got that way with the drink and drugs is a mystery to me still.

Perhaps all that corny stuff those of us growing up in the 50's was not as corny as we thought.

Touch down every morning - ten times, not just now and then.
Give that chicken fat bat to the chicken
And don't be chicken again
No. Don't be chicken again.............