Monologue as My GrandfatherEverybody used to say that these were our best years, being a teenager, but I didnt think so, and I think when I finally got out of school, cause I didnt like school, I started enjoying life. But as a teenager, I had to go to school, Mother wouldnt let me drop out, and I couldnt afford a car. Actually, I could afford the car, I couldnt afford the insurance on the car. I went to school, mostly and in the summer time, I worked on farms, so school was really the center of our teenage existence in those days, and I also ran track, which Ive passed down to your father, and now to you and your brother.

But nowadays, things are a whole lot different. The pace of history has been accelerated with time, and by history, I mean, you know, major changes in our society, and one of them occurred at the beginning of my adulthood, and that happened to be email, then kind of turned into computers. Well, no, I shouldnt say that. Email didnt turn into computers, I guess computers, or the basic forms, allowed email as a very popular thing that people could do, and that really revolutionized a lot of things. When I was in high school, we didnt have computers, or cell phones, and now-its so funny, I was thinking the other day about how you dont have to worry about what anyones phone number is anymore cause all you have to do is press on their name.

Now, Ive been around for a while now, and Ive achieved a lot of things in my life, but my current goal is to live until I die. I want to still be able to play outside, I call it playing, working on the farm down in Front Royal, and up on the mountain, and even though Im seventy-four-is that right, I think thats right-seventy-four years old now, I wanna buy some more land up there and make some new trails, maybe even build a pond, and Im just going to have a lot of fun proving that land will suit my needs, which includes walking and riding horseback over the mountain, and I might take the dogs up there, if I ever get it.