Trump was bragging about his dick? Man, they say almost anything on television nowadays! Remember when, if they used a word on TV, you knew it was alright to use it in polite company? Is there even such a thing as polite company anymore? I think my hypothetical wife is right, we did too much stuff in the 60s, and each generation since then thinks they have to top us. We shouldn't have set the bar so high, or so low, depending on your point of view.
I saw on the TV news this evening that Trump held a big rally in Cadillac today at the Wexford Civic Arena which, I understand, is a really big place, but not big enough to hold the estimated crowd of 10,000 that showed up, so they rigged speakers in the parking lot for the overflow. Yesterday they were clearing snow from a normally unused part of the lot because they figured they were going to need all the space they had. The doors opened at 10:00 AM, three hours before Trump was scheduled to speak, and lots of people were standing in line three hours before that. Some anti-Trump protesters were there, but they were vastly out numbered and barely noticed. Other candidates have been holding events in various Michigan towns, but nothing on that scale.
Most of the kids on the bus were more sedate in the morning than they were on the ride home, but not all of them. There were a few kids on every bus that were hyper right out their front doors. I don't think they even saw their parents in the morning, which might be part of the problem. They told us in our training that, with both parents working nowadays, we might be the first adult contact many kids had in the morning. Another thing might have been that they weren't getting enough sleep at night. If I could get a hyper kid to calm down for ten minutes, they would usually fall asleep. I understand that more than a few of them were given regular doses of Ritalin at school each day, but I don't know if they got it at home too. People were arguing about Ritalin in those days, with some swearing by it and others swearing at it. Are they still?
I hear you about those drunk guys in the bar. When we were kids, guys usually were better behaved when girls were present, but I'm not sure if that's true anymore. I only remember one real fight on the bus in ten years, but there was a lot of what the kids called "play fighting". In our day it was called "horseplay" or "grab ass", and girls didn't do it, but now they do, both with each other and with boys.
It's not allowed on the bus because someone could get hurt, but I also suppressed it because it seemed like a device that they used to work themselves up into a frenzy. I thought there also was sexual component to it, not overt, but subliminal. Maybe it's what they do instead of sex.
I don't drink coffee. I mean, if I'm at somebody's house and they offer it to me, I'll drink it, but I don't make it for myself or order it in restaurants. I don't know why, I just never developed a taste for it. I drink tea in the morning with my breakfast, and then I'll refill my cup and take it into the garage to have with my cigarette, but I generally don't read out there. I drink two beers in the evening before supper, and I used to read the paper while I finished the first one and drank the second one in the garage after watching the evening news. We drink this diet pop from Walmart with out supper, and then I'll have another glass of it while I do my computer stuff. It's called "Twist Up" and it has no calories, no sugar, and no caffeine, I suppose they make it out of chemicals or something. I am curious about what's going on in the world, but not as much as you are. That's okay, if anything important happens, I'm sure you will bring it to my attention.
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