If my Dad was alive today he would be eighty years old. He died nine years ago. As far as Dads go, he did the best a job as he could. Doing what Dads do and try and give their kids a better life than they had. Which, I thought, was at the top of The Dad Job Description. I learned a lot from him about things like “Never quit and never give up” “once you start quitting it gets easier each time. So don’t start” and my favorite “swirl the vermouth around the glass, pour it out. 5 ice cubes then fill with vodka. And lots of olives”
Yes, my Dad was part of the 2 martini business lunch generation in a dieing business. Direct Mail Marketing. Way before the “e-” got added to mail. Yeah that long ago.
And even passing on what he had learned in life to me. Hard learned truths or what he thought of as truths that today are just outdated and even obsolete. Just like Direct Mail Marketing.
Our parents, parent or whoever raised us could only teach us what they knew and what they learned growing up. And it worked. When societal thought and technology moved at a snails pace.
Before he died watching my Dad try to wire up the surround sound was a tragic comedy. All in one remotes! Sorcery! You get my point, raised in a time semi foreign to modern sensibilities. Set in his ways. Worked his whole career in one specific business. Didn’t really know anything else. Too old to learn a new trade.
You know there are congresspeople who have been in office for 40 to 50 years. They are in their 70s. Don’t normal people get a gold watch at 65? If society thinks you are of an age that “Mandatory Retirement” is a thing. Why are we ok with people who have had zero experience for over the last 40 years at anything besides fucking up our country, keep their jobs?
We the F%#n' People 