The News Makes Me Feel Old

Have you ever considered all the stupid shit you did when you were a kid? Did you every drink a beer with your dad when you were only 16? Did you ever throw an egg at a teacher’s house? Did you ever spend a night out with your friends in the summer without telling your mom where you were going and getting in trouble for it?

Missing Monroe Boys Reunited With Family!

Search parties and helicopters and news crews … and the kids were sitting there on a curb watching the whole show after staying in an empty lot for the night, because they didn’t want to get in trouble.

All I’m saying is that the stupid shit we did as kids would get us on Nancy Grace these days. Oh my god! Did you see that irresponsible Brittney Spears driving with her child in her lap. That’s so unsafe! Won’t someone think of the children?

Chrissakes, I probably logged a good 100 miles of steering by the time I was 8, sitting on my dad’s lap in the old Le Mans. My parents gave me a bottle of vodka as a high school graduation gift. I got busted with a bunch of other idiots when we were 12 chucking pumpkins at cars on Halloween.

I wandered away from home when I was 6 and got lost for about two hours before I found my way home. If that happened tomorrow to some 6 year old kid and you’d know what color his tshirt was from the article on CNN.

I’m glad it was 30 years ago, or I’d be sitting through an interview with Dr. Phil right now, recovering from my difficult childhood.

Sounds like Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn and Ben.

Maybe this is why I changed my major to English and switched to Vanderbilt. Or maybe this was some other girl:

Would this have been scrolling Yahoo! News?
Eighteen-Year-Old Christian Education Major Placed On Two Years Disciplinary Probation…

LeMans, huh? My first car: 1969 LeMans. Black top, white body, red interior, 350 engine, tactometer, automatic

snort!