Archive for October 13th, 2004

Competitive Macho

Posted by Bob in Musings about Life on 10/13/2004

If there is one thing I am sick of after a lifetime of dealing with the World War II generation, it’s Competitive Macho. You know, the old “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” bit.

So when it came to robbing future generations with endless veteran’s benefits and hikes in Social Security, the group that calls itself The Greatest Generation would say, “I came up in the Depression and I wuz in Wuhld Waw TOO. You OWE me!”

And anyone who had a problem and tried to share it got the reply, “I came up in the Depression and I wuz in Wuhld Waw TOO. You don’t know what Suffering is.”

Ah, the old “You don’t know what Suffering is!” line. Jews and The Greatest Generation sang it in a duet, all day every day.

So if you ever feel like telling anybody “That’s nothing. Let me tell you what having it rough really is,” the guy who drops a ray of ice down the back of your shirt will be me.

That’s as far as I can go legally.

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