I do have to say though I was running my regular 4 mile route through the nearby woods, chugging along as quickly as my 54 year old body allows, getting ready for a tough mudder race next month and a 30 something year old guy passed my like the wind. In an all out sprint I could not have come close to his speed. We were running on a path with downed trees and branches strewn across it. Gnarly roots everywhere, just 4 weeks ago I tripped over a root and broke 2 ribs. I don’t know how this guy could run that fast and not break something, but he passed me twice on the circuit. Of course he was probably 20 to 25 years younger than me.
Bob.
Back in PA MIke
May 1, 2016 12:37 pm
TBP is usually good for at least 500 views.
Maggie
May 1, 2016 12:55 pm
I am sharing it on the Henhouse TV page! That is another 12. Haha
My friend is a real estate broker and has an agent in her employ who is a wonderful guy but has a son who is almost 30 and after spending 8 years in college changing his major a few times, finally “graduated” last year. (Liberal Arts, I THINK.) Anyway, when near the office, I stop by to visit her and met the young man because his father gave him a job at the brokerage answering phones, filing, and, if he wanted, learning a bit about selling real estate. He didn’t want to do anything more than answer the phone and put a few papers in the files, so he was really getting on my friend’s nerves (who had told her agent she didn’t mind him hiring his son to help out but wasn’t going to pay him.) Since his millennial son was more than happy to sit at a desk and chat on social media all day, answering the phone and taking the occasional message for his father or another agent, I was surprised to find the office locked one day in March when I stopped by.
My friend told me that the young man and his father had gotten into an argument and that he had told his father that was “it.” He’d packed up his belongings (from his room at his parents’ home) and headed for Colorado to get a job and enjoy a little freedom. (Am thinking the legalization of pot had something to do with his destination choice?)
His mother had been relieved, though she will admit she enables his behavior. A 5 year old brother died when this young man was about two and the woman dotes on him, according to my friend. As a mother, I understand her behavior, though I don’t condone it. The loss of a child must be pure agony to someone who loves their children as I do my son, but there comes a time when someone has to be an adult. Fortunately, I had Nick to tell me when I was overdoing it and help keep me from spoiling my millennial.
Anyway, last week, my friend and I were at lunch and who walked into the restaurant but her agent and HIS SON. I was a bit surprised to see him. After we left the restaurant, she filled me in. Three weeks after leaving, her agent informed her that his son had traded his Toyota truck for a van he could sleep in because he was about to run out of money for the Motel. Two weeks ago, after a little over a month away, he’d called his mother and told her he was freezing to death at night and only had enough money for a bus ticket home.
So, he’s back, without a vehicle or a clue. My friend said her agent is at wit’s end. He knows the young man is a slacker POS, but his wife can’t cut the apron strings, even though she knows she is the problem.
It isn’t my problem, but it does seem to be a trend with young people these days.
Rob
May 1, 2016 1:06 pm
OK, just to make you all feel a whole hell of a lot older.
Maggie
May 1, 2016 1:14 pm
@ Rob, what in the world? I watched for about 3 minutes and lost patience. I’m not only old, I have better things to do.
Dutchman
May 1, 2016 1:15 pm
A positive outcome: My 31 year old daughter – executive pastry chef (Cordon Bleu trained) for an upscale chain of restaurants in Minnesota. Also makes wedding cakes at $600 – $800 a pop – on weekends. Also is a contractor for MAC cosmetics – gets $20 / hr to sell makeup at Nordstroms.
She drives her own A6. Fiancee is a network engineer. They are doing ‘OK’.
SSS
May 1, 2016 1:27 pm
Waiting for Millenial Stephanie Shepard to comment. Bet she has some incisive observations.
Maggie
May 1, 2016 1:39 pm
@Dutchman. I don’t think it is being a “millennial” that creates the problem. I think it is the lack of male role models in young men’s lives.
My father once told me (and we disagreed on many things, but this is ONE thing I have to admit he was spot on about) that the biggest problem with women having children out of wedlock was the fact that when boys hit puberty, they need a male role model to guide them into being a “man.” Not just in a sexual context, but in other ways. I suspect the pussification of the American male that is so visible in the network programming of sitcoms and even dramas on television has a direct correlation to the fact that a growing percentage of children are brought up in homes without a male role model. That is my opinion and is not based on anything but my own observation of the young people I have known over the last thirty years.
Stucky
May 1, 2016 1:39 pm
Great find, Mike! I absolutely LOVED it. So did Ms Freud. We listened to it three times in a row.
Hey, it’s Sunday … here’s another guy who sings multiple parts. “How Great Thou Art” was my all time favorite church hymn. I still sing it (in my mind) when I’m moved by something inspirational. Sometimes it doesn’t take much.
Just yesterday I’m staining 300 feet of fencing and during one of my breaks I heard the sound of a woodpecker coming from my neighbor’s yard. It didn’t take me long to find the HUGE bird … a giant red headed woodpecker. Watching his head furiously peck at that tree .. what? at about 15 times a SECOND!! …. was simply amazing. So, I thought — wow, God’s creation is quite awesome … and I hummed that song in my head. Why Because there aren’t any good songs praising Darwin. Heh.
Rob
May 1, 2016 1:54 pm
Maggie, that’s kinda the point. You can disparage any group of people by focusing on the lowest of them, those who will never achieve anything and don’t care to achieve anything. But in your time, and let’s face it this isn’t a really nice example of an actual human being, there was only one Bill Gates. There was only on Steve Jobs. OK, another bad example. How about only one Bill Clinton – no, that’s not good. Let’s see – oh maybe only one Michael Bloomberg. Only one Bernie Madoff. Only on Loyd Blankfine. Only one Jamie Dimon. You see, it’s easy to poke fun at the losers. They are not the ones who define a generation. It is the few people who do achieve something that defines a generation and there are really only a very few of them among the 7 billion of us here on this rock. And let’s face it love – the millennials have not really made it to the point where you would be able to discern their capabilities. That time is yet to come. My point with the video that you couldn’t watch is that they live in their world and you lived in your world. Their achievers will come to the top as time goes by but for not they wear man buns and do great parties at Tomorrowland and that ain’t the one in Disneyland.
Stucky
May 1, 2016 2:08 pm
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Maggie
May 1, 2016 2:12 pm
Oooh… I know. Only ONE Michael Jackson! LOL
Araven
May 1, 2016 3:50 pm
From Two Ice Floes : The New Normal: From $34.00 an hour to $2.65 plus tips.
A tale of one millennial:
“Of particular interest to me was his response to my question whether working as a waiter had hurt him financially. Quickly signally agreement, he said he dropped from $34.00 an hour toiling in the coal mine to $2.65 plus tips serving up perfectly prepared poison. While his actual language wasn’t nearly as expressive as mine, his disappointment was stark and evident.”
Stucky, looks like you accidentally reversed the pictures on the bottom row.
Francis Marion
May 1, 2016 7:10 pm
Mike,
That was awesome. Thanks!
Was thinking while I was watching that it’s good to be a Gen X’er. We’re like the teflon generation – no one blames us for anything… It’s either the boomers fault or you lazy millennials. 🙂
rhs jr
May 1, 2016 10:11 pm
Maggie, agree. I noticed 45 years ago while teaching high school that about half the kids of the rich made bad grades, were lazy and didn’t study (interfered with their sex and drugs); they were going to take over from their dad one day. Many of the rest thought school was useless because they were going to get rich in sports, music or something else easy. Only one in ten wanted to excel in school and one in five were trouble makers. Sounds like the Millennial Mentality has always existed but greatly expanded. Stucky, one day the discussion was about the Navy guys in the Gulf who gave up and I took their side party because SSgt Jack Wall and I got arrested by Turkish troops one day and I didn’t hesitate to surrender. Today I remembered something from UPT Survival Training; the USAF Experts told us that no matter how much bigger we were than a N. Vietnamese soldier, surrender if caught and don’t try to fight: you’ll have a much better chance of coming home alive.
Awesome. Thanks Mike, made my morning.
Bob.
I do have to say though I was running my regular 4 mile route through the nearby woods, chugging along as quickly as my 54 year old body allows, getting ready for a tough mudder race next month and a 30 something year old guy passed my like the wind. In an all out sprint I could not have come close to his speed. We were running on a path with downed trees and branches strewn across it. Gnarly roots everywhere, just 4 weeks ago I tripped over a root and broke 2 ribs. I don’t know how this guy could run that fast and not break something, but he passed me twice on the circuit. Of course he was probably 20 to 25 years younger than me.
Bob.
TBP is usually good for at least 500 views.
I am sharing it on the Henhouse TV page! That is another 12. Haha
My friend is a real estate broker and has an agent in her employ who is a wonderful guy but has a son who is almost 30 and after spending 8 years in college changing his major a few times, finally “graduated” last year. (Liberal Arts, I THINK.) Anyway, when near the office, I stop by to visit her and met the young man because his father gave him a job at the brokerage answering phones, filing, and, if he wanted, learning a bit about selling real estate. He didn’t want to do anything more than answer the phone and put a few papers in the files, so he was really getting on my friend’s nerves (who had told her agent she didn’t mind him hiring his son to help out but wasn’t going to pay him.) Since his millennial son was more than happy to sit at a desk and chat on social media all day, answering the phone and taking the occasional message for his father or another agent, I was surprised to find the office locked one day in March when I stopped by.
My friend told me that the young man and his father had gotten into an argument and that he had told his father that was “it.” He’d packed up his belongings (from his room at his parents’ home) and headed for Colorado to get a job and enjoy a little freedom. (Am thinking the legalization of pot had something to do with his destination choice?)
His mother had been relieved, though she will admit she enables his behavior. A 5 year old brother died when this young man was about two and the woman dotes on him, according to my friend. As a mother, I understand her behavior, though I don’t condone it. The loss of a child must be pure agony to someone who loves their children as I do my son, but there comes a time when someone has to be an adult. Fortunately, I had Nick to tell me when I was overdoing it and help keep me from spoiling my millennial.
Anyway, last week, my friend and I were at lunch and who walked into the restaurant but her agent and HIS SON. I was a bit surprised to see him. After we left the restaurant, she filled me in. Three weeks after leaving, her agent informed her that his son had traded his Toyota truck for a van he could sleep in because he was about to run out of money for the Motel. Two weeks ago, after a little over a month away, he’d called his mother and told her he was freezing to death at night and only had enough money for a bus ticket home.
So, he’s back, without a vehicle or a clue. My friend said her agent is at wit’s end. He knows the young man is a slacker POS, but his wife can’t cut the apron strings, even though she knows she is the problem.
It isn’t my problem, but it does seem to be a trend with young people these days.
OK, just to make you all feel a whole hell of a lot older.
@ Rob, what in the world? I watched for about 3 minutes and lost patience. I’m not only old, I have better things to do.
A positive outcome: My 31 year old daughter – executive pastry chef (Cordon Bleu trained) for an upscale chain of restaurants in Minnesota. Also makes wedding cakes at $600 – $800 a pop – on weekends. Also is a contractor for MAC cosmetics – gets $20 / hr to sell makeup at Nordstroms.
She drives her own A6. Fiancee is a network engineer. They are doing ‘OK’.
Waiting for Millenial Stephanie Shepard to comment. Bet she has some incisive observations.
@Dutchman. I don’t think it is being a “millennial” that creates the problem. I think it is the lack of male role models in young men’s lives.
My father once told me (and we disagreed on many things, but this is ONE thing I have to admit he was spot on about) that the biggest problem with women having children out of wedlock was the fact that when boys hit puberty, they need a male role model to guide them into being a “man.” Not just in a sexual context, but in other ways. I suspect the pussification of the American male that is so visible in the network programming of sitcoms and even dramas on television has a direct correlation to the fact that a growing percentage of children are brought up in homes without a male role model. That is my opinion and is not based on anything but my own observation of the young people I have known over the last thirty years.
Great find, Mike! I absolutely LOVED it. So did Ms Freud. We listened to it three times in a row.
Hey, it’s Sunday … here’s another guy who sings multiple parts. “How Great Thou Art” was my all time favorite church hymn. I still sing it (in my mind) when I’m moved by something inspirational. Sometimes it doesn’t take much.
Just yesterday I’m staining 300 feet of fencing and during one of my breaks I heard the sound of a woodpecker coming from my neighbor’s yard. It didn’t take me long to find the HUGE bird … a giant red headed woodpecker. Watching his head furiously peck at that tree .. what? at about 15 times a SECOND!! …. was simply amazing. So, I thought — wow, God’s creation is quite awesome … and I hummed that song in my head. Why Because there aren’t any good songs praising Darwin. Heh.
Maggie, that’s kinda the point. You can disparage any group of people by focusing on the lowest of them, those who will never achieve anything and don’t care to achieve anything. But in your time, and let’s face it this isn’t a really nice example of an actual human being, there was only one Bill Gates. There was only on Steve Jobs. OK, another bad example. How about only one Bill Clinton – no, that’s not good. Let’s see – oh maybe only one Michael Bloomberg. Only one Bernie Madoff. Only on Loyd Blankfine. Only one Jamie Dimon. You see, it’s easy to poke fun at the losers. They are not the ones who define a generation. It is the few people who do achieve something that defines a generation and there are really only a very few of them among the 7 billion of us here on this rock. And let’s face it love – the millennials have not really made it to the point where you would be able to discern their capabilities. That time is yet to come. My point with the video that you couldn’t watch is that they live in their world and you lived in your world. Their achievers will come to the top as time goes by but for not they wear man buns and do great parties at Tomorrowland and that ain’t the one in Disneyland.
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Oooh… I know. Only ONE Michael Jackson! LOL
From Two Ice Floes : The New Normal: From $34.00 an hour to $2.65 plus tips.
A tale of one millennial:
“Of particular interest to me was his response to my question whether working as a waiter had hurt him financially. Quickly signally agreement, he said he dropped from $34.00 an hour toiling in the coal mine to $2.65 plus tips serving up perfectly prepared poison. While his actual language wasn’t nearly as expressive as mine, his disappointment was stark and evident.”
Stucky, looks like you accidentally reversed the pictures on the bottom row.
Mike,
That was awesome. Thanks!
Was thinking while I was watching that it’s good to be a Gen X’er. We’re like the teflon generation – no one blames us for anything… It’s either the boomers fault or you lazy millennials. 🙂
Maggie, agree. I noticed 45 years ago while teaching high school that about half the kids of the rich made bad grades, were lazy and didn’t study (interfered with their sex and drugs); they were going to take over from their dad one day. Many of the rest thought school was useless because they were going to get rich in sports, music or something else easy. Only one in ten wanted to excel in school and one in five were trouble makers. Sounds like the Millennial Mentality has always existed but greatly expanded. Stucky, one day the discussion was about the Navy guys in the Gulf who gave up and I took their side party because SSgt Jack Wall and I got arrested by Turkish troops one day and I didn’t hesitate to surrender. Today I remembered something from UPT Survival Training; the USAF Experts told us that no matter how much bigger we were than a N. Vietnamese soldier, surrender if caught and don’t try to fight: you’ll have a much better chance of coming home alive.
Very well done! I loved it.