The Geezer in the Mirror
Hello. Welcome to The Weekend Gene Pool, in which we ask you for your questions and observations in return for entertainment.
Today’s question is a simple one. It is the logical extension of a previous challenge, in which we asked to you specify the moment you first felt you were no longer a kid.
Whatever your age is — you can answer this if you are 25 — what is the most old fogey thing you’ve ever found yourself doing or saying, something that that made you realize, wow, that’s like someone’s grandpappy. It can be a single event, or a continuing proclivity, or realizing you were being set in your ways in a decidedly fogeyish way.
I have written once before, years ago., about the single most geezery thing I ever did, but I am going to tell it again because it still makes me laugh. I was roughly 50 years old at the time.
One morning my daughter and I arrived at my car, in which we found her cell phone. She had left it there overnight. Concerned that the phone might be out of juice, I asked her: "Is it still wound up?" She started laughing, and then so did I, and in a few seconds we had to pull over for reasons of safety. That was an extremely geezer moment, no better, really, than still calling a car a “horseless carriage.”
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Okay, also I once actually heard myself yelling at kids to get off my lawn, but they were setting off cherry bombs, so maybe I was justified. But maybe I wasn’t. I was about 30. Fireworks in the neighborhood still bother me irrationally and I pace the house and curse and wish ill upon the revelers. I think people who find joy in doing this are dolts and scalawags and kaf kaf kaf hack spit.
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Anyway, send your fogey moments here. Make sure to tell us your actual age:
And finally, our Gene Pool Gene Polls, which are related to today’s challenge. I KNOW I’ve asked about this before, but Things Have Changed and I want to gauge your thinking.
or, submit your fogiest moment / proclivities, or thoughts on Biden:
See you on Tuesday.
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I think Pete B would be amazing. He would be a media darling. He would embarrass Trump in a debate. He would get out the youth vote. But I checked Kamala H because honestly if it was anybody else, the media would obsess for weeks about how the woman was snubbed, and it would piss off minorities and women, and they wouldn't be wrong. So I'd love to see a ticket of Kamala/Pete.
The Pool Poll so far shows exactly what the problem and the hysteria are all about. "Joe Biden MUST step aside for...uh...'SOMEONE'" Yeah, that's the ticket. Sure fire way to beat Orange 1. Someone and Someone --- with no war chest, no field force, no record of accomplishment on the national and international stage and little national recognition, if any. So two warm bodies. And btw --- for some reason, the veep is now well, uh, "difficult," plus she is a woman and of color. So, it's to be "Hubert Humphrey" again, is it? It's not that Biden is a bad president. He is and would continue to be head and shoulders above Orange 1 --- it's just that well, Someone, ANYONE, is a better choice. Yeah, that's the ticket. Sure it is.