Originally posted by: O2bnVegas
Future laughs, Kevin. I should have added "future." Some of my family's best laughs are from long ago happenings that at the time we thought "oh no."
Because in the long run theyt didn't kill us, but gave us some precious memories to tell over and over, some of which of course get better with the telling.
Candy
Yeah, when I was a kid, our family had a private plane, and relatives all across the country, plus, we were avid campers, so we spent every summer buzzing all over this great land of ours, and I can honestly say that we never "oh noed" even when we probably should have. Every place had something interesting, often totally unexpected. Because of this aspect of my childhood, I've always been an avid traveler.
One glaring exception to the above: my maternal grandma and grandpa lived in Hialeah; basically, Miami. We visited them in July. I anticipated someplace exotic and interesting. Beaches, tropical this and that, etc. It turned out to be a ghastly, unpleasantly hot and humid shithole with trillions of bugs large and small and occasionally huge. Never been back.
But otherwise ..my travels have taken me to many places that I didn't think were worth a sideways glance, let alone a stop, but there's always been something intriguing. And every once in a while, there's a revelation, like a little cafe in the absolute middle of nowhere prominently advertising its rhubarb pie. I overcame my skepticism and stopped and tried it. Best damn pie I've ever had, and I would never have considered it in any other context.
If I had a grandson and took him to Vegas, my fear would be that he would LIKE the place and return in the future, when he had come of age, with his savings from his Starbucks job in his hands and stars in his eyes, and get crushed like a grape.
Actually, come to think of it, if he hit a few jackpots and came home with several thousand $$$ more than he left, that would ultimately prove to be a far worse outcome.
