Still Alive, V

[MJontheMend]

Speaking of kids, MJ, your S18 isn't one anymore. Why is he still living with you? Especially with his activities exposing you to eventual legal trouble, I think it's high time you turned him loose.

Well, you know one of the three characteristics I think a man should have is initiative. My son wants to be a writer. He understood the concept or irony when he was 6 and,unlike his mother, he is an expert in grammar and linguistics (he edited the article on the topic of language in Wikipedia and his revisions stuck) and he just read the complete works of Faulkner and Dostoevsky. So his current life plan is to save up enough money to go off across the country Kerouac style in search of "experience" in his beat up old station wagon. Theoretically, I am just housing him until he is ready to leave. So I am quite annoyed that he is sapping his initiative with his current habit. OTOH, there is a strain of ADD that runs in my family that responds well to pot. My youngest sister got a 4.0 in college and graduated from one of the toughest law schools in the country and was pretty much continuously stoned while studying. Also, I was good friends in college with the son of the one of the scientists who discovered the opiate receptor part of the brain. The two of them were total stoners. He was constantly trying to breed a better strain. Proof-positive that I am not much of a stoner is that I could have had all of the very highest quality weed available in the entire country for free all the time and I rarely took advantage of his offers to try out his latest and greatest. Though I must admit that I did indirectly benefit since he was sleeping with my housemate and kept buying us stuff like more plush towels and gourmet take-out.

Plus, I'm wondering what happens if the law confiscates your house which currently has negative equity due to the terrible state of the housing market in my locale? Maybe I should plant some in my front lawn. I might come out ahead.