“Let me tell you when God created boredom he was thinking about this dinky ass podunk. It’s August the 15th and it must be a 100 degrees in the shade. There’s nothing to do but sweat, cuss and spit. I guess I can hope for a car to drive by, crash into the grain elevator and explode into flames. That might liven things up a bit. Maybe someone will make a wrong turn off the highway. Who am I kidding, there’s no reason for anybody to even drive by. “
Now – Boredom means something different in this new century. If there’s not a new PlayStation game, a blockbuster movie, high speed internet, 300 channels on cable, or whatever technological shit our kids covet, then they’ll just go cry to us mommies or daddies and we’ll run right out and buy something just to shut them up.
Jerry Brotherton 
Jerry, I tagged you for a quote game thingie if you’re interested in participating.
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When I was growing up, the words, “I’m bored” always prompted a lecture from my mother to the effect that I must learn to entertain myself because when I became a grown-up, other people would NOT entertain me.
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Sounds exactly like my mom.
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:)
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Yes, true. And sad.
Growing up, we were never bored…trees to climb, gardens to water, games to play, veggies and fruits to harvest, bikes to ride, dogs to play with, books to escape into, ETC! :-) We often had things we didn’t get around to doing that day…so we’d start the next day with that fun thing! Ha! :-)
HUGS!!! :-)
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The young kids say it’s because we didn’t have the technology back then so we didn’t know any better. But I think, when I was a child, if someone would have given me a smart phone, I still would have set it on the table and went outside to play.
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There was one kid in our neighborhood who preferred watching television (F-Troop, if I recall) to playing outside. We thought him very strange.
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I do have to admit to watching some Saturday morning cartoons. But if it wasn’t bad weather, we were not inside.
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Well, we were better off. :-)
I don’t like that most everyone to has their noses glued to screen. :-( And I’m not talking screen-door! ;-) :-D
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So right.
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