Saturday, July 21, 2007

 

The Door to Yes World is Now ... Closed?

These days, having achieved middle age, I’ve resorted to telling tales to my kids that all boil down to: One Way, Up Hill, In the Snow, Barefooted. Yep, that’s the way it was … back in the day.

Recently, back in my hometown waiting on my wife to return to the car, my teenaged daughter spotted some older teens just hanging out in the Walmart parking lot on a weekday summer’s night – as if they had nothing better to do.

“So … Dad. Is that what you did growing up? Hang out in the Walmart parking lot?”

“No, sweetie, believe it or not, when I was a kid there was no Walmart.”

“Dad?”

"Okay, so yes, the kids used to cruise around the McDonald’s endlessly … that is if they didn’t have to work a second shift job like I did to pay …"

“Dad!”

“All I’m saying is: No, I never hung out in a Walmart parking lot.”

She crossed her arms … smiled at me kinda sideways … I couldn’t tell if she wanted to hang out in the Walmart parking lot … or she thought I did – or once did. (If, of course, there had been a such a thing.)

Growing up ...

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