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Thoughts

Just returned from Tunica Mississippi, where we go to relax, gamble a bit, and enjoy ourselves. Trish, who doesn't drink until we go to Tunic or other places, looks at the room serve menu and decides what drink she will order in the casino (drinks are free) .

In the middle of the week all the retirees get free hotel room comp and free meals, so 90% of the people in the casino are retirees.

Riding back to the hotel from the casino, on a bus, about a mile...12 o'clock at night. I'm sitting in the back of the bus observing everyone on the bus. Grey handle bar mustaches, gray hair, dyed hair...These are the children of the 60's! The advocates of change!... The hell raisers!...Some leaning on their spouses shoulders, some snoring softly....What has happened. Where is the passion of the 60's!....Slopok observes all this while leaning on Trish’s shoulder, sleepy because he missed his after lunch nap.

To keep this halfway legal (mudqueen)..I'm thinking about writing a book on the thoughts of a aging boomer, on a bus in Tunica Mississippi.>
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You write, we'll buy! Good to have you back!
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posted by rapa
4 months ago
slopok, I like the way Trish decides on her drink ahead of time. I always get rushed trying to decide, when I do it at the bar or casino, and don't get what I see later I really wanted. I'm going to use her technique in the future. :D

I've often thought that it would be fun to hear the thoughts of people "our" ages as they reflect back on different times in their lives, and how the HE## they ended up where they are now. LOL

Something tells me it may have been done??????
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posted by barbincolorado
4 months ago
Ditto rapa's post on buying your book, slopok!
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posted by Moseyer
4 months ago
Some of us are still raising a bit of hell - hopefully, in a more gracious and helpful way than when we were young. It's surprising, really, that no one has already written a book on this topic. I think there'd be a lot of interest!
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posted by WorldSoWide
4 months ago
During the peace demonstrations in my locale, 90% were in their 60-70's and raising hell! There is still fire in the soul no matter what age.
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posted by Birdie1
4 months ago
You do have the beginning of a book that I am sure would prove to be very popular. Noticing the other passengers helps toward descriptions of your characters in your book. During those 60s days I pretty well behaved myself as a wife and mother. It was much later that I "found myself." Well, I'm getting close to finding myself.

When we lived in Arkansas we went to Tunica to gamble. It's not Las Vegas but we sure enjoyed it.
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posted by platform5
4 months ago
just coming up to 80 I thought back to the 60s and what I was doing. I had gone back to school now that my kids were more or less self sufficient with some supervision. I graduated and got a job in a hospital and that was a great platform for doing things to begat needed change. It was where I found who I wanted to be.
Write that book these kids need to know what they are rooted from.
Oh yeah we usually go to Biloxi
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posted by Halsgal
4 months ago
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