Do we get stuck in time, more importantly does life move on and leave us behind? Bobmac’s Random Irritation about the changing usage of words started the train of thought but it then moved onto to how things in society change and it just goes over my head.
We were back in the U.K. several months back, and whilst visiting the middle daughter in Ashby, a suburb of Scunthorpe I commented on the number of barber’s shops(9) on Ashby High Street. It’s almost a village High Street in terms of the number of shops in total. “How on earth can Ashby support so many barbers?” Middle daughter came back at me with, “oh dad surely you know they’re there just to money launder for illegal businesses like drug dealing, prostitution and protection racketeering.”
I was gobsmacked, and it reminded me of the time I asked the youngest lad if there were drugs in schools. He looked at me like I was the village idiot. “Of course there is but we just don’t get involved with that group.”
Do we reach an age where we live in innocent bliss?
We were back in the U.K. several months back, and whilst visiting the middle daughter in Ashby, a suburb of Scunthorpe I commented on the number of barber’s shops(9) on Ashby High Street. It’s almost a village High Street in terms of the number of shops in total. “How on earth can Ashby support so many barbers?” Middle daughter came back at me with, “oh dad surely you know they’re there just to money launder for illegal businesses like drug dealing, prostitution and protection racketeering.”
I was gobsmacked, and it reminded me of the time I asked the youngest lad if there were drugs in schools. He looked at me like I was the village idiot. “Of course there is but we just don’t get involved with that group.”
Do we reach an age where we live in innocent bliss?