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My Wallet

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Perhaps, not as much as I get older. Many moons ago, I had orders to go to Japan. I started the trip by going about 50 miles to an Air Force base in Southern California. I left in plenty of time to make it. However, that changed in a micro-second when I noticed I had left my wallet at home.

It was very close to being the most panicked as I ever was. It was a time I really didn’t need my driver’s license that much as I would not need it for a long time. However, it had my military ID. That is no minor oops.

My orders had an emergency number on it to call should I not be able to arrive on time. I called it. I explained my situation to the understanding woman. She calmed my nerves and said, it was okay. There was actually some slack time built into the orders. She told me I had plenty of time to return home and get my wallet. I did it and actually still had to wait a short time for my plane after I arrived at the air base.

It is perhaps one of the biggest arguments against public transportation. Had I taken a bus, I would have had to leave the wallet behind. Returning to my house would not have been an option. My wallet would have stayed in the US while I went to Japan.

I seldom go anywhere without my wallet. It has become more attached to me than my cell phone and that is saying a lot. Even so, any time I forget it or misplace it, it generates an instant empty feeling in my belly.

Even so, I guess my nephew topped me. My nephew, after finishing Army boot camp was coming home when pick-pocketed. He told me about it. They didn’t get anything. He had some of his money in a shirt pocket, some in his socks, some here, some there. He laughed it off. There was no money, no credit cards. He did report the incident to the police, but all he had to replace were his military ID, his driver’s license and his social security card. Well, he did need to get another wallet. However, a couple of weeks later, the wallet was found and returned, with the social security card, license and military ID.

His method did make me think a little. Like maybe I should carry my wallet as a prop and carry my money and such hidden elsewhere, maybe in my sock. I decided against that. I guess old habits are hard to change. I don’t totally know why, but it gives me a little comfort when I pat that rear pocket and I feel the wallet there.

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1989 Plus or Minus a Year or Two

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Why in the world do I bring up the year? What would be the significance? Most folks weren’t even around then or are aware of what all is going on in the world beyond their own home or school. Approximately at that time, a news announcement that bras would be advertised on TV with models wearing them OVER their clothing.

It wasn’t long after that, I remember seeing one of the commercials. Before that time, they did not model bras on TV. They did advertise them but no one ever wore them on TV. It seems a few weeks later, they lowered the standards and started modeling the bras without the clothing. Indeed, nowadays, they model underwear, both genders, with just the underwear.

However, it is more than that. It is a matter of frequency. It used to be that the underwear ads weren’t all that frequent. Now, it seems that we are treated to undergarment shows at least once every commercial break.

I guess we can thank the TV industry to the fact that all children past the age of 4 knows what a woman looks like in her underwear. I don’t know about others, but I really don’t think that is much of a progress. I mean, as they say, we can turn the TVs off, which I am tempted to do. However, that is not really an answer. Do we really want to deny the entertainment to 4 year-olds just so the world of lingerie can display their wears any time any day, and by the way, without forewarning. No one makes any remark, “The following ad might not be suitable for children.”

The fact of the matter is, none of us can dive for the remote fast enough keep our children from seeing such things.

I guess, there is nothing to be done. We must actually live in a world where modesty is disappearing at lightning speed.

Just one last question. Is this really the sort of thing we want want our children watching? Does this really improve their environment during their formative years? Okay. I know. Two questions. Still, sort of a different way of asking the same thing.

Words of Wisdom for the Woman Who Wants to Carry (a gun)

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I was in a doctor’s office the other day and reading an article by a woman. Yeah. What can a woman tell a man who was in the Marines for nine years about guns? Plenty!

Two things specifically that never occurred to me. First, never carry a gun in your purse. Now, I don’t know why I never thought of that, other than I never carried a purse. The problem you see, if a purse snatcher, snatches your purse, then he has also has obscanded off with your gun. You now no longer have a purse or money, but you lost your gun too. Now you will need to explain that to the police.

I have a weakness as a reporter. I am bad at getting names. I should have written down the name of the woman that wrote that which I read so that I was able to write it so you can read it. Should the woman read this, send me a message so I can properly credit you.

By the way, good clean well oiled guns don’t need to be carried in not so clean pursues anyway.

As a side note of my own, if you left your gun in the car that was stolen, pretty much the same thing applies. Fortunately, at least until recently, cars are more difficult to steal than purses.

One more peace of advice for any person, especially women, if you think you want to carry a .38 special for any reason, fire 50 rounds through one before investing in one. 1 in 3 men can handle one; maybe 1 in 10. After firing 10 rounds through a rental one day, I learned that. I am not too proud to admit my wrist hurt for hours after.

They used to be carried by police, you know. Now I have a new respect for them. I suppose after four or five hundred rounds, I might get used to it, but why?