Quote: (01-21-2013 10:36 PM)Giovonny Wrote:
Kids are awesome, as long as they are not mine!
No doubt. I hold the same philosophy towards pets.
My brother has two kids that I see every few weeks. I play games with them, we watch movies together, every now and again I'll buy 'em a cool toy. I'll get 'em hyper loaded on sugar, then send them home. They're sweet kids, very smart, and it's cool to introduce them to shit I enjoyed as a kid.
That said, when I send 'em home, I'm grateful. I don't have to wake up at five or six a.m. to get them ready for school. I don't have to take them to soccer practice on Saturday. I don't have to work fifty out of fifty-two weeks a year to take care of them. I don't have to pay a baby sitter. I don't have to plan family vacations - when the opportunity arises, I go where I want, when I want, by myself.
Don't get me wrong, there may come a day where I decide that leaving a genetic legacy is worth giving up a lot of free time for, but in my twenties, and probably thirties too, that is not the right lifestyle for me.
Same philosophy applies with pets. I have friends with both cats and/or dogs. I'll play with 'em, pet 'em, and admire the human-animal bond for a few hours, then I go home. I don't have to pay vet bills, and I don't have to take the dog out to piss every few hours, nor do I have to hire a pet-sitter if I go out of town.
