The Five Blue Budgies Start A Business

…selling cuttlefish bones

Viewer Mail

There are a few readers of this LJ of mine who are not other LJers or even signed on to LJ. One couple in particular sometimes send me emails with questions and/or comments. Their last email asked a few questions that I found interesting enought to reply to in some depth. Here is one of them.

Q: You sometimes make reference to your Wild & Misspent Youth and how you did all sorts of illegal things. Who, or What, lead you to do these things? Was it the drugs or booze or just hanging around with the wrong crowd?

A: It was me. With very few exceptions, everything I ever did that was immoral, illegal, fattening, sinful, stupid or just plain screwy was by choice. Nobody led me down the dark path. Indeed, I was more likely to bring others along on my adventures than vice versa. Most of the time, they made it back unscathed.

While booze and drugs did play a role in that portion of my life (drugs for a couple of years, booze for a couple of decades), I was almost always stone cold sober when I did the really fun stuff.

As to why I did what I did, the answers are: To see what would happen and because it seemed like fun. Sometimes what happened was not what I expected or was less than fun, but they were all interesting (sometimes in hindsight years later). When I’m old and have nothing left but memories, I’ll have some doozies.

Hmmm…I should be honest and say that some of the things I did also had a significant profit motive, too. I rather miss those days and sometimes regret spending tens of thousands of dollars on what amounts to ale and whores. Still, that’s what being young is all about.

More Blogging later. Dog walking now.