By hermit69
Date: 7 November 2000

Life

At my age..things that didnt make sense really do mean much more than you could ever fathom. Simple things..

Oh, just the other day, i left the bath room window open, Scenery you see, as there just aint much to see anymore, nor look at. You cant look down, nor to the side as you piss in the bowl. You realize that the 80s are over and that your favorite group with the funny clothes and outlandish haircut (yeah..THAT one) will never haphazzedly pass by your town on their "Reunion Tour 2000" (come get your tickets now!!). And the jeans and leather jacket just dont cut it anymore. What was it that those kids yelled?? "YMCA"?? hmmm..

Oh but who could give up partying? Naw..you can still handle the whiskey and coke!! Come on , slug it down!! One pint in one hand, Coke in the other. Show the people that you are a man!! You can drink all night and get up to work with the MEN at 5.30am..Yeah..just one problem..you work at a crappy place where half the men are ..well...suit and tie guys with stiff walks,sharp haircuts and slim glasses. The kind that even the X-Files wouldnt touch.

And the headaches come so easily after hard night on the floor...which only add to the ones that your wife created when you forgot to put the garbage out..jeez..

But somehow, after shes had a bad day with the boss (havent we all), after the kids come screaming into the room with their days work, after the dinner has been semi-cooked and after you have the usual power struggle over who gets what pillow,which channle you want why the beds not been made, you welcome sleep and sex is great.Well..its okay.. :)

But somehow you manage. You still enjoy the day, although you wish you were like the energetic kids,lined up at the bustop, as you peer through bleary,yellowed eyes,you realize that you miss the school days. Still,you've ad some good news, your step daughter is preggy!!You can always have the child you could never have (so says the uncaring,matter-of-fact doctors who tell you this over the phone). Imagine, you and  your wife,already buy Winnie The Pooh sleeping mats,Padding Bear cup and, God Forbid, it was HER idea, Teletubby toys!!

Cripes, X-Mas will be fantastic!! Going in the woods thru 6 Feet of snow..umm..hold on...this is the 2000's..ummm..going in
the mall  walking thru 600 people who are as impatient as you..all with screaming little kids, who you swear are born with advertsing logos stuck on their head.. (its not 666 that the demons of Armaggedon are wearing on their hairline..its Pepsi,Microsoft or McDonalds logos, my friends)....but YOU dont mind, do you?

Course not, you cant put up with the 2am screaming, the sickness, the 7AM watchings of Barney.....HOLD ON..this will make me a step-grandfather will it now??

oh, Good Lord..i think...UMM..WHAT'S THAT BABE..THE GARBAGE?? YES DEAR..IM SORRY DEAR..RIGHT AWAY HUN..

oh my aching back....
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