I've discovered something about myself that I never would have guessed--I have a problem with authority. A big one.
It really just hit me this evening as we were driving home from the mall. As we passed an elementary school, I could see a list of rules on the wall and I thought, "They didn't have that when I was a kid." You just behaved yourself in school or your parents would hear about it when you got home. And then you were in real trouble.
I also noticed recently I don't like people in a position of authority telling me what to do. I'd rather be asked. I don't like signs that tell me to go a certain route, when that route is obviously illogical. And I really don't like the local newscasters telling me how to feel about a story. Cut the drama.
I think I'm getting old and crotchety.
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"Take for example when you go to the movies these days, you know. They try to sell you this jumbo drink, 8 extra ounces of watered
ReplyDeleteDown cherry coke for an extra 25 cents. I don't want it. I don't want that much organization in my life. I don't want other people thinking for me. I want my junior mints. Where did the junior mints go in the
Movies? I don't want a 12 lb. Nestle crunch for 25 dollars. I want junior mints."
-Jimmy Buffett, "Fruitcakes"
There, I worked crotchety and problems with authority all into one quote for you. (And trust me, I define "issues with authority figures".)