Posted: 4/10/2010 7:12:00 PM EDT
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Different Drug Problem (source unknown)
The other day, someone at a store in our town read that a Methamphetamine lab had been found in an old farmhouse in the adjoining county and he asked me a rhetorical question, "Why didn't we have a drug problem when you and I were growing up?" I replied, "I had a drug problem when I was young: I was drug to church on Sunday morning. I was drug to church for weddings and funerals. I was drug to family reunions and community socials, no matter the weather. "I was drug by my ears when I was disrespectful to adults. I was also drug to the woodshed when I disobeyed my parents, told a lie, brought home a bad report card, did not speak with respect, spoke ill of the teacher or the preacher, or if I didn't put forth my best effort in everything that was asked of me. "I was drug to the kitchen sink to have my mouth washed out with soap if I uttered a profantiy. I was drug out ot pull weeds in mom's garden and flower beds , and cockleburs out of dad's fields. I was drug to the homes of family, friends and neighbors to help out some poor soul who had no one to mow the yard, repair the clothesline, or chop some firewood, and, if my mother had ever known that I took a single dime as a tip for this kindness, she would have drug me back tot the woodshed." Those drugs are still in my veins, and they affect my behavior in everthing I do, say, or think. They are stronger than cocaine, crack or heroin; and, if today's children had this kind of drug problem, America would be a better place. God bless the parents who drugged us. |
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Yeah, because the use of drugs is a recent phenomenon. It isn't like there were Heroine and Morphine junkies a hundred years ago, nobody was smoking weed a hundred years ago. Hell, as recently as fifty years ago it was unheard of for a lush to come home get liquored up and beat the shit out of his wife and kids for kicks, these things are all new, and can only be attributed to the youth of today, because the generation that grew up in the fifties and came of age in the sixties were anti drug to the core.
You may remember a halcyon world of your youth, where nobody ever got hurt, and nothing bad ever happened, but the only place or time that has ever been a reality is in the minds of people who choose to believe what they want to believe. |
