Eating fruits and vegetables daily will decrease your chances of cardiovascular disease and certain flavors of cancer, but they won’t protect you from drug-related violence, vehicular homicide, or the soul-crushing grayness of your tawdry little existence; happy birthday, son.
My father gave me a similiar birthday greeting when I turned 21. I resolved from that moment on to trade my tawdry existence for a more bawdy one. Unfortunately, by then Mae West had been dead for several years. Even if she were alive by then she would have started to sag.
Man. That’s pretty much the last mental image I was looking for prior to lunch today.
i heard this timeless and astute advice around 21: “If you can’t swallow it or smoke it, don’t do it”.