Thread Rating:
  • 2 Vote(s) - 5 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Unprepared For A 'Black Sky Event
#4
I used to go just about everywhere I wanted to, day or night, without a flashlight. Been out on nights so dark the only way I could see the trail was to wait for the lightning to flash. So I'm good with dark skies.

This is 10 or 20 miles from where I was raised, and I'm the resident alien here, I reckon. My grandparents lived here, and my mom was raised here, but they ain't me. I would not trust most of my neighbors as far as I could throw them, and they're mostly kin. They know me, and how I am, so they don't screw around too much, but hard times sometimes make folks do stupid things.

One guy, two doors away, married into this clan, so he's something of a resident alien, too. Not too long ago, he warned me not to trust anyone here, and to always go armed... but I just grinned and said I'd known most of them since we were all kids, and they know me about as well, and that I have never gone anywhere unarmed since my early teens, anyhow.

Everyone here knows, or should know, that I will,absolutely light up the darkest night if they screw with me. Still, as I said above, hard times will sometimes make folks do stupid and desperate things... and I'm not a trusting soul.

.
Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.

Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’




Messages In This Thread
Unprepared For A 'Black Sky Event - by 727Sky - 06-07-2021, 07:48 AM
RE: Unprepared For A 'Black Sky Event - by Ninurta - 06-08-2021, 12:34 AM

Forum Jump:


Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)