My 21 yo daughter wants to have her friends over this afternoon for a pool party. I do as instructed by the upper estrogen chain of command and stay away and let them occupy my sanctuary. I head down to the barn to spend some time with my gadgets. Take out my 6x6 Polaris UTV, move my roadking out, and take a lap with both. Now the Buick, I take the Aqua Mist car for a short rip around the block. I put everything away and head to the pool area to grab a beer. Room goes cold… my daughter leads everyone down to where my barn is, we have a tennis court and make shift basketball court. She opens the door to get basketball and tennis rackets. I’m fine up until now! Not one of the 21 yo +- guys or girls wanted to stick their head in to look around? Cars, motor cycles, ATV’s , torches, high end fishing gear, probably a gun or two, and tons and tons of tools. All this I understand, but my god are they boring. In my day we we would be tearing the roof off. I would literally be on the roof in my underwear. My buddies would definitely be hitting on the Mrs’s. A dozen plus bikini’s and nothing happening. I guess I should consider myself lucky.
Yes sir, the times have changed and everything is different for the worst in some areas in my opinion. Seems like everybody is glued to their phone screen now including babies. How many times have you gone out for a drive and look over to see everyone including the driver looking at their phone?
I knew the same about women at 21 as I do now- still nothing! Although with the advent of texting and social media it seems like shooting fish in a barrel these days. gone are the days of calling her house and hoping her old man didn't pick up...
Gone are the days of respectfully winning a woman over, her making you "work for it" and possibly getting some after some dating time put in. Now the guys text a pic of their junk with a msg if DTF to a girl and the girls show up practically nude and go through the whole crew. I'm a father if two girls and I'm a bit scared. But not as scared as those A-hole boys are going to be if they try to DTF my daughters without a ring in their pocket.
Always said: It takes a real man to have a little girl.... I tell the boys I have 5 acres and a post hole digger...takes less space that way. I promise they will never find you.
^^^ I was shown how to use a shovel by the time I could walk. Have dug a ton of holes in life. Figured out a long time ago, a man has to be able to completely finish any job he must... I have two daughters.
Glad I didn’t have daughters. In some ways if the kids are all boring that falls back to the parents. (Not your daughter Fred, her friends) I know a friend of mine is struggling because his grandkids are being raised as wimps.
Well I agree with the phones and the boring comments but every generation thinks the young kids are a mess. In the 60s it was hippies in the 70s it was sex and drugs, in the 80s it was the preppie get rich kids….it never ends… Times change faster than we do…
I don't have a UTV, nice cars, or a tennis court. But I do have vinyl records and a spaceship, and my daughters friends do not bat an eye.
My family is from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Dank weed is handed out as a sign of friendship or for literally any reason at all.
I have never been so scared in my life. Not for my daughter, but for the boys that will eventually come calling.
LoL!! In are days the girls would be mad when us guys would put them aside to look, work on and talk cars. There are some nice new cars too but still it's not the same. I tried getting my Nephew into old muscle cars, he liked the pictures of them but thats it. He see's my 79 TA pretty frequent and never asks to get it running again.. He drove a new 2005 Mustang GT that his Grand Father bought him but it only lasted a year and then he got into the Turbo Subaru's now it's a Lexus. A couple years back I was walking by the local High School and high school ask me the time I remember saying 1/4 to 4. He said he only know digital time so I told him the digital time. That really got me thinking.
The parking lot at my son’s high school looks more dull and depressing than a WalMart, and a lot of the kids are dressed like they just survived a house fire. It’s interesting being a parent… Patrick
I remember Johnny Carson Making the observation that when his son comes home at 2 AM the father asks: Didja get lucky? When his daughter isn't home at 11 PM he's waiting on the front porch with a shotgun.
I’m sitting on the beach right now and, well, there’s a lot to see! When you’re my age, that means there’s 30+ years of ‘production’ worth eyeballing. I do wonder if young folks are the way they are because of ten years of ‘no means NO!’ combined with ‘everything’s on the internet’ means they shy away from actual in person interaction? I catch men (and women!) my age with swivelly necks, but not young folks. No PDA, just stories of ‘he and she in a bathroom at school’.(?) Patrick
