A Dude’s Guide

Thank God there wasn’t a flickr, or a twitter, or a facebook or, really, the internet when I was growing up. I can just imagine the utter humiliation I’d still be enduring to this day because of something I thought was funny at the time and threw out to the public. These things will come back to haunt you and then bite you in the a. . . butt.

I thought of all this because in the last week I’ve been contacted by two women I was supposed to have known in the past. One, yep, sure enough, one of my best friends in high school. I hadn’t heard from her in almost 25 years. The other, nope, she thought we dated in college, but I think she had a different dude in mind. They found me through facebook, which I joined so I could keep an eye on my two older little dudes.

They’re getting of an age where they want to start talking to and interacting with their friends in a more or less constant basis. (Something I sure don’t understand, but then again, without my wife, known to some as She Who Hates Long and Involved Nicknames, I’d probably be living in a small cave somewhere in the wilds of Nevada, subsistingon whatever sun-fried lizard happened to be close enough to dead for me to catch. In other, shorter words, I’m a lot less outgoing than most.) Still, I wanted to be able to keep an eye on them and make sure they don’t make the kinds of mistakes I would have had I had the same sort of tech available to me when I was their age.

I mean, geez, the summer of 1982 alone would be enough to get me banned from ever coming back to my hometown of Dallas. And the thought of that showing up all these years later? Yikes!

So, yeah, I’m keeping an eye on the little dudes for as long as I can. Or for as long as they don’t figure out they can always open a second account. I’m still using rocks to the head to keep them from the thinking thing. I think it’s going well.

– Richard

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