Reply #41: I'd tell my kid exactly what my old man told me. [View All]

[sofa king]

He said, "Boy, if you want to stand in line for the rest of your life, you go right ahead."

To my eighteen-year old mind, that argument made much more sense than "you could get killed," (Me? I'm ten feet tall and bulletproof!) or "you might have to do evil" (as I listened to my favorite album, Iron Maiden's "Number of the Beast"). I was amoral, indestructible, jingoistic, fearless and convinced I was gonna die before I hit 25, anyway.

But I really didn't like the idea of being bored.

Pops is a really, really clever fellow when he has to be--and I hope one or more of you takes a page out of his book. Dangle that idea next to a one-way ticket to Amsterdam, and I guarantee you which one your kid will take.