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by Spartan26 » Fri Dec 31, 2021 5:00 am
Didn't cartoons make being a hobo seem cool?! I remember visiting some family that lived near some train tracks and I was all excited. I told one kid who lived there something like, "Wow, if you ever wanted to runaway you could just go out the door and just hop on!" The guy was very serious, "I would never want to runaway." No one said you had a sh#tty childhood, Captain Literal, but everyone who's parked themselves in front of a TV with a bowl of Froot Loops on a Saturday morning thinks you're living in real estate heaven.
I remember in kindergarden for Halloween, some parents dressed their kid up like a hobo. They used coffee grounds for his beard. Not sure what they used to make them stick but it smelled funny and the kid got sick from licking the grounds. But it was pretty cool. Looked straight outta Electric Company.
I was just thinking how kids shows made being a mad scientist look cool, too. I remember telling my mom I wanted to be a mad scientist when I grew up. She said I don't have to be mad. I sad not mad mad but I could invent some really cool stuff! She said I could just be a scientist and do that. "You want to be a scientist, not a mad scientist." No, I want to be mad scientist! Being a scientist just sounded boring. I guess the moral is not to tell your dreams or have hypothetical conversations with sensors. Geeze! Miss the point much? She really should have left me alone and not buzz killed my future. I kinda think I was right. The nice, button downed scientist I know are all on the verge if not unemployed sending out grant funding forms hoping some or lead scientist or school with come along and drop some funding in their tin cup. Meanwhile, the nutsos I know who have careers in scientists own multiple homes and are designing top secret crap for the Defense Dept or cool space stuff for foreign countries. One was supposed to go to some "think tank" in Switzerland for 6 mos and never came back. That was about 15 years ago. Last I heard was a cryptic message about superconductor, Antarctica, old soviet fueling station, and "the penguins won't go near that patch." Instead of timeshare trips to the Caribbean, I'm giving fam giftcards for Five Guys and JCPennys.