Jerry Rapp Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 went to the license office today to renew my plates. Rural southeast Missouri. I waited my turn and there were two 20 somethings behind me to conduct business also. While I was standing there getting ready to pay my fees, one of them said, "why are the flags at half mast". The other, while staring into her "smart" phone, said I have no clue. I just turned around and said, "Joan Rivers died". One said "cool", the other just nodded her head. After I got done with business, I said to them, "please remember 9/11" They gave me the deer in the head lights look and I just said "google it" Sad..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tho1mas Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Our leaders in a few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishinwrench Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Yeah, let's not forget to investigate that ! Not another word, I promise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ness Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 That doesn't bother me as much after thinking about it for a minute. They're clueless. There are lots of them out there. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Rapp Posted September 11, 2014 Author Share Posted September 11, 2014 Yeah, let's not forget to investigate that ! Not another word, I promise. snicker.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch f Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 I don't think there is an app for clueless. But in reality they are being perfectly conditioned in many ways for the society in which they will live...all kidding aside. Except maybe for the poverty part "Honor is a man's gift to himself" Rob Roy McGregor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ness Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Jerry -- I've been thinking about this. First, congrats to you for pointing out to them what the importance of the day is. But, with the benefit of having time to sit and think, maybe it would have been good to try to inform them of the importance of it. Standing in line at the DMV -- that's a captive audience if there ever was one. I'm not criticizing, just thinking what might have had the biggest impact. Maybe all us old farts would be better messengers if we took advantage of our stature and educated rather than judged. Again -- not saying what you did was wrong. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bird Watcher Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Jerry -- I've been thinking about this. First, congrats to you for pointing out to them what the importance of the day is. But, with the benefit of having time to sit and think, maybe it would have been good to try to inform them of the importance of it. Standing in line at the DMV -- that's a captive audience if there ever was one. I'm not criticizing, just thinking what might have had the biggest impact. Maybe all us old farts would be better messengers if we took advantage of our stature and educated rather than judged. Again -- not saying what you did was wrong. Gotta say Ness, you said it better than I could. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TheBeardedTay Posted September 12, 2014 Members Share Posted September 12, 2014 Jerry -- I've been thinking about this. First, congrats to you for pointing out to them what the importance of the day is. But, with the benefit of having time to sit and think, maybe it would have been good to try to inform them of the importance of it. Standing in line at the DMV -- that's a captive audience if there ever was one. I'm not criticizing, just thinking what might have had the biggest impact. Maybe all us old farts would be better messengers if we took advantage of our stature and educated rather than judged. Again -- not saying what you did was wrong. Very well said indeed. We're definitely headed in a dark direction. Surprisingly enough, people are still too lazy to research or look something up with the phone in their pocket. The phone that has more technology than the Apollo Astronauts that landed on the friggin moon! What happened to that America? "Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers." -Herbert Hoover Check out my website! www.beardedbassmaster.comI've got a blog! Bass, Beards, and Brews! Follow me on facebook! http://www.facebook.com/beardedbassmaster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdmidwest Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 I thought it was for the Rice Guy that beat his wife and lost his football jersey. I was just thinking about it today, I think it was the last time I have seen gas at $1.45 was that morning. Before the day was over, it jumped to over $2 and there was talk of prosecuting for price gouging. Now its $3.20 and nobody blinks an eye. I was coming out of the shower getting ready for work when the second tower got hit, watched the plane sail into it on live TV. Called the office and told them I was going to be late. Stopped on the way in an hour later and topped off the tank. By the time I went to lunch, the streets were almost empty and all planes were grounded, the town had an eery silence to it. It was a moment in history I will never forget, but was never really a part of. I do remember the United States coming together in a sense of patriotism for a while after that. Then that all came to an end in about 2007 and today we are a nation that is divided for the most part. "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." — Hunter S. Thompson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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