9/29/2022

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How Should Swezey Buy the Farm? (Part 2)

Last week I asked that, but I only got one response.

"How about derailment dropping a boxcar on you while waiting at a RR 
crossing?"

Pretty good! Weird enough, but it got me to thinking, it's kinda like the 
space junk thing - sorta.

It's adequately weird, but now I'm thinking that maybe I DO want a "what an 
idiot" part to all this.

Otherwise it's just "tragic".

A lot of tragic things can happen to me that nobody will ever remember about me.

That's no fun. (Maybe it's okay as a backup plan - you know, just in case.)

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Remember, I first thought:
"Something where 50 years later people will still be saying, "I used to know this Swezey guy and he did X-Y-Z and it killed him! - What an idiot!"."

Now, I'm thinking it SHOULD BE something I CHOOSE to do - not just something out of my control.

Something that SEEMS reasonable (at least to ME) but will prove out to be 
phenomenally stupid in the light of future hindsight. (Is "the light of 
future hindsight" a thing? I guess so.)

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Like living with the grizzly bears - that SOUNDS reasonable enough, don't 
you think?

Actually, I would never have done that anyway - I'm not a "pet person".

Besides, that's gotta get pretty stinky, especially after a week or so - I 
don't think grizzly bears are all that "hygienic".

I could be wrong - I don't know much about grizzly bears.

But I do hear they just poop out in the woods - no bathrooms - no toilet 
paper.

Plus I bet those grizzly chicks are pretty nasty.

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So I'm thinking I DO want "what an idiot" to be a big part of this.

Sorry to change the criteria, I'm still trying to sort this all out.

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But then I'm thinking - that creates a whole new problem.

If you suggest something really weird, you're also indicating that you think it's a really stupid idea to actually do it.

That I'd be an idiot to do it - which probably means I might not do it 
then - I'm not TOTALLY stupid.

But if I DON'T do it, then the horrible ramifications of it will never 
happen to me - because I never did it.

But then I got NOTHING! - I'm back to square one.

If I do it ANYWAY, then I'd be doing something I KNOW is stupid.

How stupid is THAT! Like I say, I'm not THAT stupid.

I don't know what I want anymore - I'm too confused - this didn't seem so 
complicated when I started out.

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So anyway, I'm starting to think: I think maybe I think too much!

(I'll have to think about that.)

I'm starting to feel like comedian Rodney Dangerfield - "It ain't easy being me."

It ain't! :-)

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Life is weird isn't it?

All this started because a guy climbed over a fence in Rapid City, SD to get a picture of a buffalo and it has rattled around in the back of my otherwise empty brain ever since.

Wow.

Maybe I should just give it up! :-)
Ya, - maybe.

Nah :-)

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Stay Jazzed!
--Tom Swezey