City by the sea....
Flashback to the summer of 2004.... Young Tom had just gotten involved with a little project at Kingman Regional called "PACS" he was playing Star Wars Galaxies way more then was healthy and his girlfriend had dumped him earlier that year because he didn't want to join her during grad school rather choosing to build a life in Kingman and join her once she finished. That was in late January early Feburary.
It's July 2004 the dark side of Catalina island. The first day of what would be 4 day stay on the dark side of Catalina. Young Tom is sitting under a palm tree drinking a Guinness Irish stout that he bought earlier in the day for $9.00 at the two harbors general store (which really amounted to highway robbery with sales tax). It's late in the evening and Tom is talking with his friends Sabrina and Tim about "What makes you and adult?"
Among the ideas bandied about between the three while Tom drinks his Guinness while Sabrina and Tim drink something that involves rum are... a mortgage, children, car payments, thinking about retirement, and marriage... ultimately all rejected because one of us can name one person who has one of the above items but yet we considered them to be not adult. I barely considered myself an adult at the time I was 25 job, mortgage, and thinking about investing but honestly I still thought of myself as a kid.
Why were we drinking? Well that part is easy there were 7 adults and 6 kids. And someone was not having any part of the kids (his name rhymes with mom). Sadly the 6 Guinness wouldn't make it through the night as I shared with Brandi and we were dry by the morning. It was a long 3 days after that.
Flash forward to 2007 young but slightly older Tom is sitting on his back porch thinking about his life. No girlfriend but friends he wouldn't trade the world for and thinking to himself as Rage Against the Machine plays in the background (Renegades of funk) am I an adult? Young but slightly older Tom would say yes only because as he was grilling a steak earlier in the day walked through his grass and pulled up weeds.
Young but slightly older Tom doesn't know if that makes him an adult but it makes him alot more like his father then he would would care to admit to.
3 comments:
Technically being an adult is simply physical maturity. It's that point at which you are able to reproduce, and care and provide for yourself and your family.
Although, it was decided this weekend that a man who is unabashedly wearing pink shorty socks with his camouflage shorts and tennis shoes has most definitely reached adulthood. You know, that point in life where you don't give a shit what other people think and the fact that someday you will embarrasses the hell out of your young daughter actually makes it worth digging those socks out of the drawer. Just for the smile. That I speak from experience (from more than one angle) makes me wonder if Cody isn't turning into my father.
friends he wouldn't trade the world for..............thanks man, me either. Maybe we can get the whole crew out next time for Carvin Jones.
i am forever indebted to the man, nay the youthful yet responsible friend, who so generously shared his 6 pack of guinness with me the first night we were stranded on that island with herds of kids and buffalo.
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