Talk Radio Killed My Faith In Humanity

Happy days. Hope you're all recovering nicely from the Halloween sugar coma.

Today's topic isn't really "current events", but it's irksome none the less. I was driving home from work yesterday morning and started flipping through the radio. I do not care for radio morning shows. I listen to the radio for music, not to hear blowhards yammering about this, that, or the other. But for some reason I stopped on one station where a discussion was going on about whether or not smoking in front of children should be considered child abuse. After wrapping up the call that was in a progress some gal calls in and starts to say that she is about to be a mother and she thinks smoking in front of kids should not be considered child abuse. One of the DJ's asks this pregnant gal, in jest, if she smokes now. She replied " Yeah! And my baby is growing big and healthy. They used to do it in the old days all the time!" I almost drove my car off the side of the road when I heard that. The DJ obviously had the same reaction because he stammered and then just hung up on her saying he couldn't talk to her.

I am fully aware of the ever growing population of stupid people in this world. But for some reason I had built up a false hope in my mind that at least all knowingly pregnant adult females would do their best to not smoke during their baby's gestation. So to hear someone proudly proclaim that they are smoking while pregnant threw me off. Not only that, but her iron clad argument that "They used to do it in the old days..." just made me want to find this moron and bitch slap her just like "They used to do in the old days".

I've made a list of things that "they used to do in the old days". Feel free to add any that I may have overlooked.

~ My favorite, having unprotected sex with a plethora of partners. You weren't cool unless you had a couple STD's.

~ Drunk driving. This is one of those old habits that apparently die hard, but at least now it's publicly frowned upon.

~ Driving without seat belts. I remember the days of crawling around the back of the station wagon while on long trips.

~ Drinking while pregnant. It was all fun and games until some "invented" Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

~ Leaving school to go work on the farm.

~ Marrying first cousins

~ Dieing by age 50

~ Believing the world is flat.

Ok, so some of those go a little further back than the 'good old days', but you get my point. Just because something was once a common practice doesn't make it right. There is a reason it is no longer a common practice.

Anyways, if any of you find this chick here in Boise that is smoking while pregnant give her a swift poke in the eye for me please.

Cya in 7