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Today’s Virtual Book Tour stop<\/strong> consists of a review of West Oversea<\/i> at RBC Library. They don’t like it very much<\/a>. Tapping my way across the parking lot, it occurred to me that I may qualify for a handicapped parking permit someday. And I thought, what will retailers do when all of us Baby Boomers start falling apart at once? Will they convert half their parking lots to handicapped spots, and if that happens, what will be the use of them?<\/p>\n And how long will the younger generations put up with us? We are a nuisance, after all, and one with an annoying sense of entitlement. Back when I was a teenager, there were paranoid fantasies about wild, sociopathic youth taking over the world and putting all the oldsters in concentration camps. Wouldn’t it be ironic (is ironic the right word? I’ve never entirely mastered its proper use, I’m ashamed to say) if we <\/i>turned out to be the generation that got sent to a gulag?<\/p>\n Frankly, it would serve us right in a lot of ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today’s Virtual Book Tour stop consists of a review of West Oversea at RBC Library. They don’t like it very much. Just to update you on my fascinating adventures stumping around with a cane, I went back to the same store today, and the bored-looking young man who checked out my stuff made no offer … Continue reading Never trust anyone under 30<\/span>
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Just to update you<\/strong> on my fascinating adventures stumping around with a cane, I went back to the same store today, and the bored-looking young man who checked out my stuff made no offer to bag it for me. So the courtesy I was extended last time appears to have been a function of the niceness of that particular checkout lady.<\/p>\n