. . . . and life is goooooood
Time to reflect: Seventeen things that I have learned in my thirty years and three days on the Earth . . . .
1. Those who call themselves moderates usually aren’t. (As ObWi’s self-proclaimed “moderate,” perhaps I confess too much.)
2. Money does buy love, or a reasonable facsimile thereof.
3. Sunshine may be best in the spring, but a cold winter sun ain’t all bad.
4. East coast, not west coast. However:
5. San Francisco, not Boston.
6. Rednecks are everywhere.
7. Gin, not vodka.
8. If you can’t sum up the general principles of a thing in a paragraph, you don’t understand the thing.
9. Free weights, not machines.
10. Manual transmissions, not automatics.
11. England, not France.
12. It is always better to be consistently overdressed than consistently underdressed.
13. Football, not baseball.
14. Cigarettes, not cigars.
15. Kingsley, not Martin (save for Martin’s spectacular “London Fields”)
16. The Greeks, not the Romans.
17. You know less than you think you do. And, yes, everyone knows it.
Number five shows good taste, number ten suggests you’ve never been there.
Number 10 suggests that he has never been in either place on number 5.
Your wisdom on #9 is I think the key to a long-term strenuous life.
Number 10 suggests that he has never been in either place on number 5.
Touche. Call 5 a preference. (Drove once in San Francisco with a manual. Bad idea. Though I’ve been through, in, and around Boston quite a bit in a Honda Civic 5 spd. Teaches you how to downshift, as well as several good ways to quickly burn through a clutch.)
(Oh, yeah, and more proof that #17 applies particularly well to me.)