What ever happened to the good old days?

I'm sorry if I'm waxing nostalgic here, but sometimes I step back and reflect on life and think about how times have changed. Don't get me wrong, I'm not living in the past, I'm all for change in the interest of progress. But what ever happened to the good old days when you could beat somebody senseless without having charges filed against you?



I remember back in the old days when men were men. They knew how to take a beating without whimpering and whining, and you wouldn't have to worry about being subpoenaed the following week. Nowadays? Forget about it. You so much as break a few of a gas station attendant's ribs for filling you up with regular instead of super, and next thing you know you're in court. Ridiculous.



I don't know, I guess they're just different times now, maybe people have changed. It's all about being "politically correct" and "not bludgeoning people with a wrench after a getting into a minor traffic accident" now. Words like "tough" or "mean" used to describe somebody who would destroy an entire rest stop with his bare hands, but now people think they're so enlightened, they label them "rageaholics."



Society just isn't what it was thirty years ago, and we can't go back. As time marches on we must strive to adapt, but we can always think back wistfully to the good old days when you didn't have to worry about some dry cleaner owner suing you after you beat him to a bloody pulp with your left shoe because of an argument over a stain.