No Fear, Big Johnson!
It occurred to me yesterday that modern man's (or woman's) lifespan can be broken down into periods of different types of fear. I'm going to list ages and the appropriate fear for that period in life.
0-2.5 years old: Shaken baby syndrome [fear, per se, doesn't exist.]
2.5-5 years old: Mental retardation [this is a parental fear, though.]
5-7 years old: Strangers/kidnapping
7-8 years old: Forest Fires/Clowns
8-10 years old: The Boogeyman/Scary movies
10-15 years old: Girls (or, Guys)
15-17 years old: Lifelong virginity
17-18 years old: Teen pregnancy
19-21 years old: Inability to find booze
21-24 years old: Your own proclivities/vices
24-26 years old: QUARTER LIFE CRISIS [inadequacies, death, illness, marriage, et c.]
26-30 years old: Job loss
30-35 years old: Hair loss
35-40 years old: Regret
40-60 years old: SARS/Anthrax/Terrorist Attack/Bird Flu
60-70 years old: Mad Cow
70-80 years old: Robots
2 comments:
I feel like NO FEAR is still pretty ubiquitous as a topic of any conversation about "back then," but I had all but forgotten about BIG JOHNSON--thanks for the reminder. Such clever captions. Kind of along the lines of the COED NAKED series.
Hi, well be sensible, well-all described
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